Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or character of being tumid or swollen.
- noun Hence A pompous or bombastic style; turgidness; fustian.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being tumid.
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- noun The condition of being
tumid
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- noun slight swelling of an organ or part
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Examples
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Such a tumidity is the key complaint we usually have when, as described above, the trite is presented with the pomp of the sublime.
On the Sublime Hal Duncan 2010
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Such a tumidity is the key complaint we usually have when, as described above, the trite is presented with the pomp of the sublime.
Archive 2010-03-01 Hal Duncan 2010
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Altogether, tumidity seems particularly hard to avoid.
On the Sublime Hal Duncan 2010
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Altogether, tumidity seems particularly hard to avoid.
Archive 2010-03-01 Hal Duncan 2010
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While tumidity desires to transcend the limits of the sublime, the defect which is termed puerility is the direct antithesis of elevation, for it is utterly low and mean and in real truth the most ignoble vice of style.
Archive 2010-03-01 Hal Duncan 2010
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While tumidity desires to transcend the limits of the sublime, the defect which is termed puerility is the direct antithesis of elevation, for it is utterly low and mean and in real truth the most ignoble vice of style.
On the Sublime Hal Duncan 2010
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Most of those who fall into this type, straying from the type they began with, are misled by the appearance of grandeur and cannot perceive the tumidity of the style. from the Rhetorica ad Herennium. jeff vandermeer says:
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The exposure of the upper person shows the size and tumidity of the areola, even in young girls; being unsupported, the mammae soon become flaccid.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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The diction has in places a huge and rugged grandeur, which degenerates here and there into tumidity.
Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth 1893
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There is, however, one in No. 11, which is blown up into such tumidity, as to be truly ludicrous.
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
seanahan commented on the word tumidity
"It's not the teat, it's the tumidity."
February 8, 2007