turgidity

“Just from a scientific, botanical perspective, there’s no way that a plant can lose that much of its turgidity — the positive water pressure that keeps its stem rigid,” she explains.

In a piece as graceful and zesty as the Ravel, the slowly accumulating strength of the orchestra could be taken for turgidity.

Every so often an academic article liberates itself from the bonds of turgidity that characterize scholarly prose, and instead welcome readers with a refreshing gust of literary flair.

There was his batting, notable for its skill and tenacity but also for its turgidity and self-absorption, tending towards selfishness.

My problem with the initial San Francisco production was its rhetorical turgidity.