Meaning of FLATULENCE
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- [n] pompously embellished language
- [n] a state of excessive gas in the alimentary canal
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| | Synonyms: | | flatulency, gas, turgidity, turgidness |
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| | See Also: | | long-windedness, physiological condition, physiological state, prolixity, prolixness, wordiness | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Flat"u*lence\, Flatlency \Flat"*len*cy\, n. [Cf. F.
flatulence.]
The state or quality of being flatulent.
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| Medical Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | Excessive gas in the stomach or intestine. |
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| Biology Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | Flatulence is gas produced in the bowel. |
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| | Related Terms: | | aeriness, affectation, Barnumism, bedizenment, big talk, bloat, bloatedness, bloating, blowing up, convolution, diastole, dilatation, dilation, distension, dropsy, edema, ethereality, fart, flashiness, flatulency, flatuosity, fluidity, fulsomeness, garishness, gas, gaseity, gaseous state, gaseousness, gassiness, gaudiness, grandiloquence, grandioseness, grandiosity, high-flown diction, inflatedness, inflation, intumescence, lexiphanicism, loftiness, luridness, magniloquence, mere rhetoric, meretriciousness, meteorism, orotundity, ostentation, ostentatious complexity, platitudinous ponderosity, polysyllabic profundity, pomposity, pompous prolixity, pompousness, pontification, pretension, pretentiousness, prose run mad, puff, puffiness, puffing, rhetoric, rhetoricalness, sensationalism, sententiousness, showiness, stiltedness, stretching, swell, swellage, swelling, swelling utterance, swollen phrase, swollenness, tall talk, tortuosity, tortuousness, tumefaction, tumescence, tumidity, tumidness, turgescence, turgidity, turgidness, tympanism, tympany, vapor pressure, vaporiness, vaporousness, wind, windiness |
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