flatulence

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: flat=u=lence

CIDE DICTIONARY

flatulence, n. [Cf. F. flatulence.].

 The state or quality of being flatulent.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

flatulence

Barnumism, aeriness, affectation, bedizenment, big talk, bloat, bloatedness, bloating, blowing up, convolution, diastole, dilatation, dilation, distension, dropsy, edema, ethereality, fart, flashiness, flatulency, flatuosity, flatus, 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

ROGET THESAURUS

flatulence

Gaseity

N gaseity, vaporousness, flatulence, flatulency, volatility, aeration, aerification, elastic fluid, gas, air, vapor, ether, steam, essence, fume, reek, effluvium, flatus, cloud, ammonia, ammoniacal gas, volatile alkali, vacuum, partial vacuum, pneumatics, pneumatostatics, aerostatics, aerodynamics, gasmeter, gasometer, air bladder, swimming bladder, sound, (of a fish), gaseous, aeriform, ethereal, aerial, airy, vaporous, volatile, evaporable, flatulent.