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tumidity
noun as in bombast
Example Sentences
No one can overlook its frequent tumidity and constant want of terseness.
The diction has in places a huge and rugged grandeur, which degenerates here and there into tumidity.
To these expedients they were compelled, in consequence of their inelegant fashion of compressing the waist into a very narrow compass, which necessarily caused an excessive tumidity in the bosom.
There is, however, one in No. 11, which is blown up into such tumidity, as to be truly ludicrous.
The exposure of the upper person shows the size and tumidity of the areola, even in young girls; being unsupported, the mammae soon become flaccid.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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