tumidity

noun

tumidity

noun

Etymology From tumid + -ity, after Latin tumiditās.

1

The condition of being tumid; swollenness, distension.

There is, however, one [passage] in No. 11, which is blown up into such tumidity, as to be truly ludicrous.1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson, Oxford, published 2008, page 1373:

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