tumidityn.
/tjuːˈmɪdɪti/ The quality or condition of being tumid; swollenness.
a. literal; also concrete a swelling.
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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
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > swelling > [noun]
swalm?c1225
bolninga1340
swelling1377
blowinga1398
tumefaction1598
swelth1631
turgency1650
tumidity1828
lumping1851
nodulation1862
nodularity1948
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > swelling > [noun] > a swelling or protuberance
ampereOE
kernelc1000
wenc1000
knot?c1225
swella1250
bulchc1300
bunchc1325
bolninga1340
botcha1387
bouge1398
nodusa1400
oedemaa1400
wax-kernel14..
knobc1405
nodule?a1425
more?c1425
bunnyc1440
papa1450
knurc1460
waxing kernel?c1460
lump?a1500
waxen-kernel1500
bump1533
puff1538
tumour?1541
swelling1542
elevation1543
enlarging1562
knub1563
pimple1582
ganglion1583
button1584
phyma1585
emphysema?1587
flesh-pimple1587
oedem?a1591
burgeon1597
wartle1598
hurtle1599
pough1601
wart1603
extumescence1611
hulch1611
peppernel1613
affusion1615
extumescency1684
jog1715
knibloch1780
tumefaction1802
hunch1803
income1808
intumescence1822
gibber1853
tumescence1859
whetstone1886
tumidity1897
Osler's node1920
1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Tumidity, swelling.
1828 T. B. Macaulay John Dryden in Wks. (1898) VII. 152 No more than the tumidity of a muscle resembles the tumidity of a boil.
1873 A. W. Ward tr. E. Curtius Hist. Greece I. i. i. 24 Every muscle, every sinew, is developed into full play,..there is no trace of tumidity or of inert matter.
1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. III. 476 Windy tumidities and occasionally phantom tumours arise.
b. figurative in reference to language: see tumid adj. 2.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [noun] > inflated or bombastic style
inflation1603
windinessa1613
ranting1633
tumoura1639
turgency1654
tympany1680
swell1744
turgidity1756
turgidness1757
tumidity1791
ráiméis1828
mouthiness1830
spread-eagleism1858
inflatedness1867
ampullosity1869
telegraphese1870
mouthing1876
Barnumese1889
intumescence1893
1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1784 II. 565 [A passage] blown up into such tumidity as to be truly ludicrous.
1883 Fortn. Rev. 1 Sept. 380 Their periods turned with Johnsonian tumidity.
1895 Q. Rev. Oct. 336 Aeschylus, grandiose at times almost to tumidity.
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