turgidness
31swelling — Synonyms and related words: abscess, access, accession, accretion, accrual, accruement, accumulation, addition, advance, aggrandizement, amplification, aposteme, appreciation, ascent, augmentation, aureate, bagging, baggy, ballooning, bed sore,… …
32tumescence — Synonyms and related words: access, accession, accretion, accrual, accruement, accumulation, addition, advance, aggrandizement, amplification, appreciation, ascent, augmentation, ballooning, bloat, bloatedness, bloating, blowing up, boil, boom,… …
33expansion — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Act of expanding Nouns expansion, increase, enlargement, extension, augmentation, amplification, dilation, aggrandizement, spread, growth, development, turgescence, turgidness, turgidity; obesity, dropsy …
34Expansion — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Expansion >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 expansion expansion Sgm: N 1 increase increase &c. 35 of size Sgm: N 1 enlargement enlargement extension augmentation Sgm: N 1 amplification amplification …
35turgid — (adj.) 1610s, from L. turgidus swollen, inflated, from turgere to swell, of unknown origin. Figurative use in reference to prose is from 1725. Related: Turgidly; turgidness …
36tympany — n. 1. (Med.) Tympanites, drumbelly, wind dropsy. 2. Inflation, conceit, bombast, tumidity, turgidness …
37intumescence — n 1. swelling, bloating, tumefaction, turgescence, turgidness, turgidity; distention, inflation, expansion, extension, spread; enlargement, increase, amplification, widening, thickening, broadening, dilation, dilatation. 2. protuberance,… …
38verbosity — n 1. wordiness, verbality, verbalism, verbiage, prolixity, prolixness, loquacity, loquaciousness, long windedness, longiloquence, multiloquence; overtalkativeness, talkativeness, glibness, loose tongue, Inf. gabbiness, Inf. gift of gab, Inf.… …
39turgid — /ˈtɜdʒəd / (say terjuhd) adjective 1. pompous or bombastic, as language, style, etc. 2. swollen; distended; tumid. {Latin turgidus} –turgidity /tɜˈdʒɪdəti/ (say ter jiduhtee), turgidness, noun –turgidly, adverb …
40turgid — [tʉr′jid] adj. [L turgidus < turgere, to swell] 1. swollen; distended 2. bombastic; pompous; grandiloquent SYN. BOMBASTIC turgidity n. turgidness turgidly adv …
