Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The condition of being swollen.
- noun The process of swelling.
- noun Pomposity; self-importance.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of swelling, or the state of being swelled.
- noun In medicine, the swelling or enlargement of any part, usually from congestion or the extravasation of serum or blood.
- noun Pomposity; inflation; bombast.
- noun In botany, the becoming turgid or distended by a liquid content. See
turgid , 3.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of swelling, or the state of being swollen, or turgescent.
- noun Empty magnificence or pompousness; inflation; bombast; turgidity.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
swelling , or state of beingswollen orturgescent . - noun Empty
magnificence orpompousness ;inflation ;bombast ;turgidity .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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He composed wistful passages about “the plump turgescence of youth,” and in pears found the “soft rapture of attainment.”
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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He composed wistful passages about “the plump turgescence of youth,” and in pears found the “soft rapture of attainment.”
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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He composed wistful passages about “the plump turgescence of youth,” and in pears found the “soft rapture of attainment.”
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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He told her that barrenness is cured by the presence of immoderate heat in a woman accompanied by turgescence.
Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe Sandra Gulland 2000
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He told her that barrenness is cured by the presence of immoderate heat in a woman accompanied by turgescence.
Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe Sandra Gulland 2000
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It is during this state withdrawn forcibly backwards over the glans, and in this situation, while being itself the first cause of constriction, it induces another -- namely, an arrest to the venous circulation, which is followed by a turgescence of the glans.
Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise
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Considering all these facts, we must regard the fall of arterial pressure, the depression of the fontanelle, and the turgescence of the vessels of the limbs as phenomena concomitant with bodily rest and warmth, and we have no more right to assign the causation of sleep to cerebral anæmia than to any other alteration in the functions of the body, such as occur during sleep.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 1178, June 25, 1898 Various
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A physical fooling of turgescence and congestion in that region, such as swimmers often feel, probably increased the impression.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 Various
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Now it is in vain to talk of contractions, of spasms, of turgescence; all this evidently fails to reach the case of the St. - Médard _succors_.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 Various
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The whole feminine genital canal, including the uterus, indeed, is richly supplied with blood-vessels, and is capable during sexual excitement of a very high degree of turgescence, a kind of erection.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy Havelock Ellis 1899
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