tumidity
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From tumid + -ity, after Latin tumiditās.
Noun[edit]
tumidity (countable and uncountable, plural tumidities)
- The condition of being tumid; swollenness, distension.
- 1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson, Oxford, published 2008, page 1373:
- There is, however, one [passage] in No. 11, which is blown up into such tumidity, as to be truly ludicrous.