Word Meanings - TURGIDITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality or state of being turgid.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TURGIDITY)

• Altiloquence
• Bombast
• inflatedness
• turgidity
• euphuism
• magniloquence
• Grandiloquence
• Verbosity
• pomposity
• mouthiness
• grandiosity
• antiloquence
• stiltedness
• fustian
• bombast

Related words: (words related to TURGIDITY)

• GRANDILOQUENCE
  The use of lofty words or phrases; bombast; -- usually in a bad sense. The sin of grandiloquence or tall talking. Thackeray,
• BOMBAST
  a doublet of cotton; hence, padding, wadding, fustian. See 1. Originally, cotton, or cotton wool. A candle with a wick of bombast. Lupton. 2. Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing; padding. How now, my sweet
• FUSTIAN
  It. fustagno, fr. LL. fustaneum, fustanum; cf. Pr. fustani, Sp. 1. A kind of coarse twilled cotton or cotton and linen stuff, including corduroy, velveteen, etc. 2. An inflated style of writing; a kind of writing in which high- sounding words are
• MAGNILOQUENCE
  The quality of being magniloquent; pompous discourse; grandiloquence.
• VERBOSITY
  The quality or state of being verbose; the use of more words than are necessary; prolixity; wordiness; verbiage. The worst fault, by far, is the extreme diffuseness and verbosity of his style. Jeffrey.
• FUSTIANIST
  A writer of fustian. Milton.
• GRANDIOSITY
  The state or quality of being grandiose,
• EUPHUISM
  An affectation of excessive elegance and refinement of language; high-flown diction.
• POMPOSITY
  The quality or state of being pompous; pompousness. Thackeray.
• BOMBASTRY
  Swelling words without much meaning; bombastic language; fustian. Bombastry and buffoonery, by nature lofty and light, soar highest of all. Swift.
• BOMBASTIC; BOMBASTICAL
  Characterized by bombast; highsounding; inflated. -- Bom*bas"tic*al*ly, adv. A theatrical, bombastic, windy phraseology. Burke. Syn. -- Turgid; tumid; pompous; grandiloquent.
• TURGIDITY
  The quality or state of being turgid.
• ALTILOQUENCE
  Lofty speech; pompous language. Bailey.