tumidity

English

Etymology

From tumid +‎ -ity, after Latin tumiditās.

Noun

tumidity (countable and uncountable, plural tumidities)

  1. The condition of being tumid; swollenness, distension.
    • 1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson, Oxford, published 2008, page 1373:
      There is, however, one [passage] in No. 11, which is blown up into such tumidity, as to be truly ludicrous.

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