Hypertext Webster Gateway: "turgidness"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Turgid \Tur"gid\, a. [L. turgidus, from turgere to swell.]
1. Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent
or expansive force; swelled; swollen; bloated; inflated;
tumid; -- especially applied to an enlarged part of the
body; as, a turgid limb; turgid fruit.
A bladder . . . held near the fire grew turgid.
--Boyle.
2. Swelling in style or language; vainly ostentatious;
bombastic; pompous; as, a turgid style of speaking. --
{Tur"gid*ly}, adv. -- {Tur"gid*ness}, n.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
turgidness
n : pompously embellished language [syn: {turgidity}, {flatulence}]
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