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Word Meanings - TURGIDITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality or state of being turgid.

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  • GRANDILOQUENCE
    The use of lofty words or phrases; bombast; -- usually in a bad sense. The sin of grandiloquence or tall talking. Thackeray,
  • BOMBAST
    a doublet of cotton; hence, padding, wadding, fustian. See 1. Originally, cotton, or cotton wool. A candle with a wick of bombast. Lupton. 2. Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing; padding. How now, my sweet
  • FUSTIAN
    It. fustagno, fr. LL. fustaneum, fustanum; cf. Pr. fustani, Sp. 1. A kind of coarse twilled cotton or cotton and linen stuff, including corduroy, velveteen, etc. 2. An inflated style of writing; a kind of writing in which high- sounding words are
  • MAGNILOQUENCE
    The quality of being magniloquent; pompous discourse; grandiloquence.
  • VERBOSITY
    The quality or state of being verbose; the use of more words than are necessary; prolixity; wordiness; verbiage. The worst fault, by far, is the extreme diffuseness and verbosity of his style. Jeffrey.
  • FUSTIANIST
    A writer of fustian. Milton.
  • GRANDIOSITY
    The state or quality of being grandiose,
  • EUPHUISM
    An affectation of excessive elegance and refinement of language; high-flown diction.
  • POMPOSITY
    The quality or state of being pompous; pompousness. Thackeray.
  • BOMBASTRY
    Swelling words without much meaning; bombastic language; fustian. Bombastry and buffoonery, by nature lofty and light, soar highest of all. Swift.
  • BOMBASTIC; BOMBASTICAL
    Characterized by bombast; highsounding; inflated. -- Bom*bas"tic*al*ly, adv. A theatrical, bombastic, windy phraseology. Burke. Syn. -- Turgid; tumid; pompous; grandiloquent.
  • TURGIDITY
    The quality or state of being turgid.
  • ALTILOQUENCE
    Lofty speech; pompous language. Bailey.

 

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