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  • 61redundancy — *verbiage, tautology, pleonasm, circumlocution, periphrasis Analogous words: wordiness, verbosity, prolixity, diffuseness (see corresponding adjectives at WORDY): inflatedness or inflation, turgidity, tumidity, flatulence (see corresponding… …

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  • 62bombast — n grandiosity, rodomontade, pomposity, magniloquence, grandiloquence; tumidity, turgidity, flatulence, Archaic. tympany; extravagance, rant, highflown language, sesquipedality; bravado, braggadocio, gasconade …

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  • 63erection — n 1. construction, fabrication, raising. 2. building, structure, framework, edifice, house. 3.Physiol. tumescence, tumidity, turgescence, tur gidity; distention, swelling …

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  • 64fullness — n 1. satiation, satiety, the point of satisfaction; capacity, the fill, the top, the brim. 2. completeness, entirety, wholeness, totality, intactness; comprehensiveness, thoroughness, inclusiveness; broadness, extensiveness, vastness,… …

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  • 65fustian — n 1. bombast, rant, grandiosity, rodomontade, pomposity, magniloquence, grandiloquence; tumidity, turgidity, flatulence, Archaic. tympany; extravagance, high flown language, flowery speech, exaggerated language, overstatement, sesquipedality;… …

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  • 66inflation — n 1. false prosperity, overenlarged currency; runaway prices, high prices, stiff prices, steep prices; stagflation. 2. conceit, conceitedness, egotism, pride, vainglory, vaingloriousness; narcissism, self love, self admiration, self esteem,… …

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  • 67largeness — n 1. bigness, greatness, enormity, enor mousness, hugeness, grandiosity, grandness, grandeur; magnitude, size, dimension, measure, muchness; mass, bulk, proportion, caliber; sizableness, substantiality, largishness, biggishness, considerableness; …

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  • 68magniloquence — n bombast, fustian, pomposity, orotundity; grandiloquence, high soundingness, pretentiousness, grandiosity, A rchaic. magnisonance; tur gidity, tumidity, tumescence; boastfulness, braggadocio, fanfaronade, gasconade; (all of speech) vanity, pride …

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  • 69pomposity — n 1. pompousness, haughtiness, hauteur, arrogance, self importance, pontification, Inf. stuffiness; pretension, pretentiousness, affectation, airs, attitudinizing, posing, Inf. highfalutin ways; vainglory, vanity, pride, foppery, dandyism,… …

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  • 70rant — v 1. orate, speechify, declaim, discourse, expound, expatiate, hold forth, perorate, go on, go on and on; speak, make an address, talk, take to the hustings, soapbox, Inf. stump; boast, brag, crow, trumpet, talk big, exaggerate, hyperbolize, tell …

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