turgescencen.
/təːˈdʒɛsəns/ 1. The action or condition of swelling up; the fact or state of being swollen.
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the world > space > extension in space > expansion or enlargement > [noun] > distension > swelling or swollenness
bolninga1340
bollingc1390
bossingc1440
tumour?1541
swelling1577
bulking1599
outswelling1611
swelth1631
turgescence1631
puffedness1648
intumescency1650
inturgescency1650
intumescence1656
obtumescence1657
bloatedness1660
tumefaction1666
turgescency1666
turgence1671
swell1683
tumidness1688
puffiness1699
tumidity1721
turgidity1732
inturgescence1755
tumescence1859
swollenness1902
1631 E. Jorden Disc. Nat. Bathes (1632) xiv. 106 Animals haue their set times when their spermatick spirits are in turgescence.
1737 H. Bracken Farriery Improved (1763) 47 Any Turgescence or Swelling of the Blood-Vessels.
1843 R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. ix. 98 That turgescence of the cerebral vessels which precedes apoplectic seizures.
1875 A. W. Bennett & W. T. T. Dyer tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. 634 The pressure caused by the tension and turgescence of the tissues.
2. figurative.
a. Progressive swelling or increase.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [noun]
waxingc1055
increasingc1340
increasec1374
echinga1382
creasing1398
augmentinga1400
alarginga1425
moringa1425
augmentc1425
incrementc1425
creasec1440
increasement1509
enlarginga1513
enlargement1564
amplification1569
accession1570
usury1576
enhancement1577
growth1587
creasement1592
accrease1598
crescence1602
improvement1607
excrement1608
majoration1626
heightening1629
auction1692
turgescence1806
outgrowth1837
steepening1868
prolating1919
upgrading1920
1806 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. 4 244 The turgescence of effort travelling at every hitch from head to tail.
b. Inflation, pomposity, bombast.
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1813 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. 70 451 A marked tendency to affectation, to turgescence.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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