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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FUL'SOMENESS, n. Nauseousness; rank smell; obscenity.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: excessive but superficial compliments given with affected charm [syn: unction, smarm, fulsomeness]
2: smug self-serving earnestness [syn: fulsomeness, oiliness, oleaginousness, smarminess, unctuousness, unction]

Merriam Webster's

noun see fulsome

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Fulsome Ful"some, a. [Full, a. + -some.] 1. Full; abundant; plenteous; not shriveled. [Obs.] His lean, pale, hoar, and withered corpse grew fulsome, fair, and fresh. --Golding. 2. Offending or disgusting by overfullness, excess, or grossness; cloying; gross; nauseous; esp., offensive from excess of praise; as, fulsome flattery. And lest the fulsome artifice should fail Themselves will hide its coarseness with a veil. --Cowper. 3. Lustful; wanton; obscene; also, tending to obscenity. [Obs.] ``Fulsome ewes.'' --Shak. -- Ful"some*ly, adv. -- Ful"some*ness, n. --Dryden.