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Chubbiness of lady's bottom with love bites spread over (7)

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I believe the answer is:

obesity

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'chubbiness' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both human attributes as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I can't see?

'lady's bottom with love bites spread over' is the wordplay.
'bottom' indicates one should take the final letters.
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'love' becomes 'o' (love means zero in tennis).
'spread' is an anagram indicator.
'over' is an insertion indicator.
The last letter of 'lady' is 'y'.
'bites' with letters rearranged gives 'besit'.
'o' put within 'besit' is 'obesit'.
'y' put after 'obesit' is 'OBESITY'.

'of' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for obesity that I've seen before include "State of being unhealthily fat" , "Fatness to great excess" , "Abnormal fatness" , "Gross fatness" , "Condition of excessive fatness" .)

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