tympany

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: tym=pa=ny

CIDE DICTIONARY

tympany, n. [Gr. , fr. a kettledrum. See Tympanites.].

•  A flatulent distention of the belly; tympanites.  Fuller.  [1913 Webster]
•  Hence, inflation; conceit; bombast; turgidness.  Dryden.  [1913 Webster]

  "A plethoric a tautologic tympany of sentence."  [1913 Webster]

ROGET THESAURUS

tympany

Expansion

N expansion, increase of size, enlargement, extension, augmentation, amplification, ampliation, aggrandizement, spread, increment, growth, development, pullulation, swell, dilation, rarefaction, turgescence, turgidness, turgidity, dispansion, obesity, hydrocephalus, hydrophthalmus, dropsy, tumefaction, intumescence, swelling, tumor, diastole, distension, puffing, puffiness, inflation, pandiculation, dilatability, expansibility, germination, growth, upgrowth, accretion, budding, gemmation, overgrowth, overdistension, hypertrophy, tympany, bulb, plumper, superiority of size, big bang, Hubble constant, expanded larger, &c (large), swollen, expansive, wide open, wide spread, flabelliform, overgrown, exaggerated, bloated, fat, turgid, tumid, hypertrophied, dropsical, pot bellied, swag bellied, edematous, oedematous, obese, puffy, pursy, blowzy, bigswoln, distended, patulous, bulbous, full blown, full grown, full formed, big, abdominous, enchymatous, rhipidate, tumefacient, tumefying.