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- diastole
collapse - the widening of the chambers of the heart between two contractions when the chambers fill with blood related words >
- arsis,
- beat,
- bloat,
- bloatedness,
- bloating,
- blowing up,
- bout,
- circle,
- circuit,
- course,
- cycle,
- dilatation,
- dilation,
- distension,
- downbeat,
- dropsy,
- edema,
- flatulence,
- flatulency,
- flatus,
- gassiness,
- inflation,
- intumescence,
- meteorism,
- puff,
- puffiness,
- puffing,
- pulse,
- revolution,
- rotation,
- round,
- series,
- spell,
- stretching,
- swell,
- swellage,
- swelling,
- swollenness,
- systole,
- thesis,
- tumefaction,
- tumescence,
- tumidity,
- tumidness,
- turgescence,
- turgidity,
- turgidness,
- turn,
- tympanism,
- tympany,
- upbeat,
- wheel,
- windiness
- bloat,
- bloatedness,
- bloating,
- blowing up,
- boil,
- breaking point,
- bump,
- bunion,
- carbuncle,
- corn,
- cyst,
- diastole,
- dilatation,
- dilation,
- dropsy,
- edema,
- extension,
- extreme tension,
- flatulence,
- flatulency,
- flatus,
- furuncle,
- gassiness,
- inflation,
- intumescence,
- lump,
- meteorism,
- overdistension,
- overdrawing,
- overexpansion,
- overextension,
- overstrain,
- overstraining,
- overstretching,
- pimple,
- pock,
- puff,
- puffiness,
- puffing,
- pustule,
- rising,
- sebaceous cyst,
- snapping point,
- strain,
- straining,
- stretch,
- stretching,
- swell,
- swellage,
- swelling,
- swollenness,
- tension,
- tumefaction,
- tumescence,
- tumidity,
- tumidness,
- tumor,
- turgescence,
- turgescency,
- turgidity,
- turgidness,
- tympanism,
- tympany,
- wen,
- windiness
- intumescence
collapse
- the swelling of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water)
- swelling up with blood or other fluids (as with congestion) related words >
- benign tumor,
- bloat,
- bloatedness,
- bloating,
- blowing up,
- boil,
- bump,
- bunion,
- callosity,
- callus,
- cancer,
- carbuncle,
- carcinoma,
- corn,
- cyst,
- diastole,
- dilatation,
- dilation,
- distension,
- dropsy,
- edema,
- excrescence,
- flatulence,
- flatulency,
- flatus,
- fungosity,
- fungus,
- furuncle,
- gassiness,
- growth,
- inflation,
- lump,
- malignant growth,
- metastatic tumor,
- meteorism,
- mole,
- morbid growth,
- neoplasm,
- nevus,
- nonmalignant tumor,
- outgrowth,
- pimple,
- pock,
- proud flesh,
- puff,
- puffiness,
- puffing,
- pustule,
- rising,
- sarcoma,
- sebaceous cyst,
- stretching,
- swell,
- swellage,
- swelling,
- swollenness,
- tumefaction,
- tumescence,
- tumidity,
- tumidness,
- tumor,
- turgescence,
- turgescency,
- turgidity,
- turgidness,
- tympanism,
- tympany,
- verruca,
- wart,
- wen,
- windiness
- dilation
collapse
- the act of expanding an aperture; "the dilation of the pupil of the eye"
- a lengthy discussion (spoken or written) on a particular topic related words >
- aggrandizement,
- amplification,
- ballyhoo,
- big talk,
- bloat,
- bloatedness,
- bloating,
- blowing up,
- boil,
- bump,
- bunion,
- burlesque,
- carbuncle,
- caricature,
- corn,
- cyst,
- development,
- diastole,
- dilatation,
- distension,
- dropsy,
- edema,
- elaboration,
- enhancement,
- enlargement,
- exaggerating,
- exaggeration,
- excess,
- exorbitance,
- expansion,
- expatiation,
- explication,
- extravagance,
- extreme,
- flatulence,
- flatulency,
- flatus,
- furuncle,
- gassiness,
- grandiloquence,
- heightening,
- huckstering,
- hyperbole,
- hyperbolism,
- inflation,
- inordinacy,
- intumescence,
- lump,
- magnification,
- meteorism,
- overemphasis,
- overestimation,
- overkill,
- overstatement,
- pimple,
- pock,
- prodigality,
- profuseness,
- puff,
- puffery,
- puffiness,
- puffing,
- puffing up,
- pustule,
- rising,
- sebaceous cyst,
- sensationalism,
- stretching,
- superlative,
- swell,
- swellage,
- swelling,
- swollenness,
- tall talk,
- touting,
- travesty,
- tumefaction,
- tumescence,
- tumidity,
- tumidness,
- tumor,
- turgescence,
- turgescency,
- turgidity,
- turgidness,
- tympanism,
- tympany,
- unfolding,
- wen,
- windiness,
- working-out
- tumescence
collapse
- tumidity resulting from the presence of blood or other fluid in the tissues related words >
- access,
- accession,
- accretion,
- accrual,
- accruement,
- accumulation,
- addition,
- advance,
- aggrandizement,
- amplification,
- appreciation,
- ascent,
- augmentation,
- ballooning,
- bloat,
- bloatedness,
- bloating,
- blowing up,
- boil,
- boom,
- boost,
- broadening,
- buildup,
- bump,
- bunion,
- carbuncle,
- corn,
- crescendo,
- cyst,
- development,
- diastole,
- dilatation,
- dilation,
- distension,
- dropsy,
- edema,
- elevation,
- enlargement,
- expansion,
- extension,
- flatulence,
- flatulency,
- flatus,
- flood,
- furuncle,
- gain,
- gassiness,
- greatening,
- growth,
- gush,
- hike,
- increase,
- increment,
- inflation,
- intumescence,
- jump,
- leap,
- lump,
- meteorism,
- mounting,
- multiplication,
- pimple,
- pock,
- productiveness,
- proliferation,
- puff,
- puffiness,
- puffing,
- pustule,
- raise,
- rise,
- rising,
- sebaceous cyst,
- snowballing,
- spread,
- stretching,
- surge,
- swell,
- swellage,
- swelling,
- swollenness,
- tumefaction,
- tumidity,
- tumidness,
- tumor,
- turgescence,
- turgescency,
- turgidity,
- turgidness,
- tympanism,
- tympany,
- up,
- upping,
- upsurge,
- upswing,
- uptrend,
- upturn,
- waxing,
- wen,
- widening,
- windiness
- flatulence
collapse
- a state of excessive gas in the alimentary canal related words >
- 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
- stretching
collapse
- act of expanding by lengthening or widening related words >
- aggrandizement,
- amplification,
- ballyhoo,
- big talk,
- bloat,
- bloatedness,
- bloating,
- blowing up,
- breaking point,
- burlesque,
- caricature,
- diastole,
- dilatation,
- dilation,
- distension,
- doziness,
- dropsy,
- drowsiness,
- edema,
- elongation,
- enhancement,
- enlargement,
- exaggerating,
- exaggeration,
- excess,
- exorbitance,
- expansion,
- extension,
- extravagance,
- extreme,
- extreme tension,
- flatulence,
- flatulency,
- flatus,
- gassiness,
- grandiloquence,
- heaviness,
- heightening,
- huckstering,
- hyperbole,
- hyperbolism,
- inflation,
- inordinacy,
- intumescence,
- languor,
- lengthening,
- lethargy,
- magnification,
- meteorism,
- oscitancy,
- oscitation,
- overdistension,
- overdrawing,
- overemphasis,
- overestimation,
- overexpansion,
- overextension,
- overkill,
- overstatement,
- overstrain,
- overstraining,
- overstretching,
- pandiculation,
- prodigality,
- production,
- profuseness,
- prolongation,
- protraction,
- puff,
- puffery,
- puffiness,
- puffing,
- puffing up,
- sensationalism,
- sleepiness,
- snapping point,
- somnolence,
- somnolency,
- strain,
- straining,
- stretch,
- stringing out,
- superlative,
- swell,
- swellage,
- swelling,
- swollenness,
- tall talk,
- tension,
- touting,
- travesty,
- tumefaction,
- tumescence,
- tumidity,
- tumidness,
- turgescence,
- turgidity,
- turgidness,
- tympanism,
- tympany,
- windiness,
- yawning
- abscess,
- ague,
- anemia,
- ankylosis,
- anoxia,
- apnea,
- asphyxiation,
- asthma,
- ataxia,
- atrophy,
- backache,
- bleeding,
- blennorhea,
- bloat,
- bloatedness,
- bloating,
- blowing up,
- cachexia,
- cachexy,
- chill,
- chills,
- colic,
- constipation,
- convulsion,
- coughing,
- cyanosis,
- diarrhea,
- diastole,
- dilatation,
- dilation,
- distension,
- dizziness,
- dysentery,
- dyspepsia,
- dyspnea,
- edema,
- emaciation,
- fainting,
- fatigue,
- fever,
- fibrillation,
- flatulence,
- flatulency,
- flatus,
- flux,
- gassiness,
- growth,
- hemorrhage,
- high blood pressure,
- hydrops,
- hypertension,
- hypotension,
- icterus,
- indigestion,
- inflammation,
- inflation,
- insomnia,
- intumescence,
- itching,
- jaundice,
- labored breathing,
- low blood pressure,
- lumbago,
- marasmus,
- meteorism,
- nasal discharge,
- nausea,
- necrosis,
- pain,
- paralysis,
- pruritus,
- puff,
- puffiness,
- puffing,
- rash,
- rheum,
- sclerosis,
- seizure,
- shock,
- skin eruption,
- sneezing,
- sore,
- spasm,
- stretching,
- swell,
- swellage,
- swelling,
- swollenness,
- tabes,
- tachycardia,
- tumefaction,
- tumescence,
- tumidity,
- tumidness,
- tumor,
- turgescence,
- turgidity,
- turgidness,
- tympanism,
- tympany,
- upset stomach,
- vertigo,
- vomiting,
- wasting,
- windiness
- Barnumism,
- affectation,
- aggrandizement,
- amplification,
- ballyhoo,
- bedizenment,
- blowing up,
- bullshit,
- bunk,
- bunkum,
- burlesque,
- caricature,
- convolution,
- dilatation,
- dilation,
- enhancement,
- enlargement,
- exaggerating,
- exaggeration,
- excess,
- exorbitance,
- expansion,
- extravagance,
- extreme,
- fancy talk,
- fine talk,
- fish story,
- flashiness,
- flatulence,
- flatulency,
- fulsomeness,
- garishness,
- gas,
- gaudiness,
- grandiloquence,
- grandioseness,
- grandiosity,
- heightening,
- high-flown diction,
- highfalutin,
- highfaluting,
- hot air,
- huckstering,
- hyperbole,
- hyperbolism,
- inflatedness,
- inflation,
- inordinacy,
- lexiphanicism,
- loftiness,
- luridness,
- magnification,
- magniloquence,
- mere rhetoric,
- meretriciousness,
- orotundity,
- ostentation,
- ostentatious complexity,
- overemphasis,
- overestimation,
- overkill,
- overstatement,
- platitudinous ponderosity,
- polysyllabic profundity,
- pomposity,
- pompous prolixity,
- pompousness,
- pontification,
- pretension,
- pretentiousness,
- prodigality,
- profuseness,
- prose run mad,
- puffery,
- puffing up,
- rhetoric,
- rhetoricalness,
- sensationalism,
- sententiousness,
- showiness,
- stiltedness,
- stretching,
- superlative,
- swelling utterance,
- swollen phrase,
- swollenness,
- tall story,
- tall talk,
- tortuosity,
- tortuousness,
- touting,
- travesty,
- tumidity,
- tumidness,
- turgescence,
- turgidity
- Barnumism,
- affectation,
- arrogance,
- assurance,
- assuredness,
- bedizenment,
- belief,
- big talk,
- buckram,
- ceremonial,
- ceremoniousness,
- ceremony,
- certitude,
- cocksureness,
- confidence,
- confidentness,
- conviction,
- convolution,
- courage,
- dignity,
- extrinsicality,
- faith,
- flashiness,
- flatulence,
- flatulency,
- form,
- formality,
- formalization,
- fulsomeness,
- garishness,
- gaudiness,
- grandiloquence,
- grandioseness,
- grandiosity,
- gravity,
- high-flown diction,
- hubris,
- impersonality,
- inflatedness,
- inflation,
- lexiphanicism,
- loftiness,
- luridness,
- magniloquence,
- mere rhetoric,
- meretriciousness,
- orotundity,
- ostentation,
- ostentatious complexity,
- overconfidence,
- oversureness,
- overweening,
- overweeningness,
- platitudinous ponderosity,
- poise,
- polysyllabic profundity,
- pomp,
- pompous prolixity,
- pompousness,
- pontificality,
- pontification,
- positiveness,
- pretension,
- pretentiousness,
- pride,
- primness,
- prose run mad,
- rhetoric,
- rhetoricalness,
- rigidness,
- ritual,
- rituality,
- security,
- self-assurance,
- self-confidence,
- self-importance,
- self-reliance,
- sensationalism,
- sententiousness,
- settled belief,
- showiness,
- solemnity,
- starchiness,
- stiffness,
- stiltedness,
- stuffiness,
- stylization,
- subjective certainty,
- sureness,
- surety,
- swelling utterance,
- swollen phrase,
- swollenness,
- tall talk,
- tortuosity,
- tortuousness,
- trust,
- tumidity,
- tumidness,
- turgescence,
- turgidity,
- weight
- bloat
collapse
- swelling of the rumen or intestinal tract of domestic animals caused by excessive gas
- become bloated or swollen or puff up; "The dead man's stomach was bloated"
- make bloated or swollen; "Hunger bloated the child's belly" related words >
- accrue,
- accumulate,
- add to,
- advance,
- aggrandize,
- amplify,
- appreciate,
- augment,
- balloon,
- bloatedness,
- bloating,
- blotter,
- blow up,
- blowing up,
- boom,
- boozehound,
- boozer,
- breaking point,
- breed,
- broaden,
- build,
- build up,
- bulk,
- bulk out,
- crescendo,
- develop,
- diastole,
- dilatation,
- dilate,
- dilation,
- distend,
- distension,
- dropsy,
- drunk,
- edema,
- enlarge,
- expand,
- extend,
- extreme tension,
- fill out,
- flatulence,
- flatulency,
- flatus,
- gain,
- gain strength,
- gassiness,
- get ahead,
- go up,
- greaten,
- grow,
- guzzler,
- hike,
- hike up,
- huff,
- increase,
- inebriate,
- inflate,
- inflation,
- intensify,
- intumescence,
- lush,
- magnify,
- meteorism,
- mount,
- multiply,
- overdistension,
- overdrawing,
- overexpansion,
- overextension,
- overstrain,
- overstraining,
- overstretching,
- proliferate,
- puff,
- puff up,
- puffiness,
- puffing,
- pump,
- pump up,
- raise,
- rarefy,
- rise,
- run up,
- shoot up,
- snapping point,
- snowball,
- soak,
- sot,
- sponge,
- spread,
- strain,
- straining,
- strengthen,
- stretch,
- stretching,
- sufflate,
- swell,
- swellage,
- swelling,
- swollenness,
- tension,
- tippler,
- tumefaction,
- tumefy,
- tumescence,
- tumidity,
- tumidness,
- turgescence,
- turgidity,
- turgidness,
- tympanism,
- tympany,
- up,
- wax,
- widen,
- windiness
- Barnumism,
- affectation,
- apparent character,
- appearances,
- arsenic green,
- bedizenment,
- beggarliness,
- big talk,
- blatancy,
- brazenness,
- cheapness,
- clashing colors,
- coarseness,
- color clash,
- colorfulness,
- contemptibleness,
- convolution,
- crassness,
- crudeness,
- crudity,
- crumminess,
- dash,
- dazzle,
- dazzlingness,
- despicableness,
- display,
- earthiness,
- exteriors,
- external appearance,
- externals,
- extravagance,
- extravaganza,
- extravagation,
- facade,
- flagrancy,
- flamboyance,
- flashiness,
- flatulence,
- flatulency,
- front,
- fulsomeness,
- gaiety,
- garishness,
- gaudery,
- glare,
- glitter,
- gorgeousness,
- grandiloquence,
- grandioseness,
- grandiosity,
- grossness,
- high-flown diction,
- inflatedness,
- inflation,
- jaundiced yellow,
- jauntiness,
- jazziness,
- lexiphanicism,
- luridness,
- magniloquence,
- meanness,
- mere externals,
- mere rhetoric,
- meretriciousness,
- meritlessness,
- miserableness,
- obscenity,
- obtrusiveness,
- orotundity,
- ostent,
- ostentation,
- ostentatious complexity,
- outward appearance,
- outward show,
- paltriness,
- panache,
- pitiableness,
- pitifulness,
- platitudinous ponderosity,
- polysyllabic profundity,
- pomposity,
- pompous prolixity,
- pompousness,
- pontification,
- poorness,
- pretension,
- pretentiousness,
- prose run mad,
- public image,
- rawness,
- rhetoric,
- rhetoricalness,
- ribaldry,
- roughness,
- rudeness,
- sadness,
- screaming color,
- sensationalism,
- sententiousness,
- shabbiness,
- shamelessness,
- shocking pink,
- shoddiness,
- show,
- showiness,
- sorriness,
- speciousness,
- sportiness,
- stiltedness,
- superficiality,
- surface appearance,
- surface show,
- swelling utterance,
- swollen phrase,
- swollenness,
- tall talk,
- tawdriness,
- tortuosity,
- tortuousness,
- tumidity,
- tumidness,
- turgescence,
- turgidity,
- unworthiness,
- vain show,
- vileness,
- vulgarness,
- worthlessness,
- wretchedness
- sensationalism
collapse
- the journalistic use of subject matter that appeals to vulgar tastes; "the tabloids relied on sensationalism to maintain their circulation"
- subject matter that is calculated to excite and please vulgar tastes related words >
- Barnumism,
- Thespian art,
- affectation,
- aggrandizement,
- amateur theatricals,
- amplification,
- ballyhoo,
- bedizenment,
- big talk,
- blatancy,
- blood and thunder,
- blowing up,
- brazenness,
- burlesque,
- caricature,
- colorfulness,
- convolution,
- crudeness,
- dash,
- dazzle,
- dazzlingness,
- demonstrativeness,
- dilatation,
- dilation,
- dramatic art,
- dramatic form,
- dramatic irony,
- dramatic stroke,
- dramatic structure,
- dramaticism,
- dramatics,
- dramatism,
- dramaturgy,
- emotional appeal,
- emotionalism,
- emotionality,
- emotionalization,
- emotionalizing,
- emotiveness,
- emotivity,
- enhancement,
- enlargement,
- exaggerating,
- exaggeration,
- excess,
- exorbitance,
- expansion,
- extravagance,
- extravaganza,
- extravagation,
- extreme,
- flagrancy,
- flamboyance,
- flashiness,
- flatulence,
- flatulency,
- fulsomeness,
- gaiety,
- garishness,
- gaudery,
- gaudiness,
- glare,
- glitter,
- gorgeousness,
- grandiloquence,
- grandioseness,
- grandiosity,
- heightening,
- high-flown diction,
- histrionics,
- histrionism,
- huckstering,
- human interest,
- hyperbole,
- hyperbolism,
- inflatedness,
- inflation,
- inordinacy,
- jauntiness,
- jazziness,
- lexiphanicism,
- loftiness,
- loudness,
- love interest,
- luridness,
- magnification,
- magniloquence,
- making scenes,
- melodrama,
- melodramatics,
- mere rhetoric,
- meretriciousness,
- nonrationalness,
- obtrusiveness,
- orotundity,
- ostentation,
- ostentatious complexity,
- overemphasis,
- overestimation,
- overkill,
- overstatement,
- panache,
- platitudinous ponderosity,
- play construction,
- polysyllabic profundity,
- pomposity,
- pompous prolixity,
- pompousness,
- pontification,
- pretension,
- pretentiousness,
- prodigality,
- profuseness,
- prose run mad,
- puffery,
- puffing up,
- rhetoric,
- rhetoricalness,
- sententiousness,
- shamelessness,
- showiness,
- sportiness,
- staginess,
- stiltedness,
- stretching,
- superlative,
- swelling utterance,
- swollen phrase,
- swollenness,
- tall talk,
- tawdriness,
- theatricalism,
- theatricality,
- theatricals,
- theatricism,
- theatrics,
- tortuosity,
- tortuousness,
- touting,
- travesty,
- tumidity,
- tumidness,
- turgescence,
- turgidity,
- unreasoningness,
- visceralness,
- vulgarness,
- yellow journalism
- edema
collapse
- swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue related words >
- abscess,
- access,
- accession,
- accretion,
- accrual,
- accruement,
- accumulation,
- addition,
- advance,
- aggrandizement,
- ague,
- amplification,
- anemia,
- ankylosis,
- anoxia,
- apnea,
- appreciation,
- ascent,
- asphyxiation,
- asthma,
- ataxia,
- atrophy,
- augmentation,
- backache,
- ballooning,
- bleeding,
- blennorhea,
- bloat,
- bloatedness,
- bloating,
- blowing up,
- boil,
- boom,
- boost,
- broadening,
- buildup,
- bump,
- bunion,
- cachexia,
- cachexy,
- carbuncle,
- chill,
- chills,
- colic,
- constipation,
- convulsion,
- corn,
- coughing,
- crescendo,
- cyanosis,
- cyst,
- development,
- diarrhea,
- diastole,
- dilatation,
- dilation,
- distension,
- dizziness,
- dropsy,
- dysentery,
- dyspepsia,
- dyspnea,
- elevation,
- emaciation,
- enlargement,
- expansion,
- extension,
- fainting,
- fatigue,
- fever,
- fibrillation,
- flatulence,
- flatulency,
- flatus,
- flood,
- flux,
- furuncle,
- gain,
- gassiness,
- greatening,
- growth,
- gush,
- hemorrhage,
- high blood pressure,
- hike,
- hydrops,
- hypertension,
- hypotension,
- icterus,
- increase,
- increment,
- indigestion,
- inflammation,
- inflation,
- insomnia,
- intumescence,
- itching,
- jaundice,
- jump,
- labored breathing,
- leap,
- low blood pressure,
- lumbago,
- lump,
- marasmus,
- meteorism,
- mounting,
- multiplication,
- nasal discharge,
- nausea,
- necrosis,
- pain,
- paralysis,
- pimple,
- pock,
- productiveness,
- proliferation,
- pruritus,
- puff,
- puffiness,
- puffing,
- pustule,
- raise,
- rash,
- rheum,
- rise,
- rising,
- sclerosis,
- sebaceous cyst,
- seizure,
- shock,
- skin eruption,
- sneezing,
- snowballing,
- sore,
- spasm,
- spread,
- stretching,
- surge,
- swell,
- swellage,
- swelling,
- swollenness,
- tabes,
- tachycardia,
- tumefaction,
- tumescence,
- tumidity,
- tumidness,
- tumor,
- turgescence,
- turgescency,
- turgidity,
- turgidness,
- tympanism,
- tympany,
- up,
- upping,
- upset stomach,
- upsurge,
- upswing,
- uptrend,
- upturn,
- vertigo,
- vomiting,
- wasting,
- waxing,
- wen,
- widening,
- windiness
- ostentation
collapse
- pretentious or showy or vulgar display
- lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
- a gaudy outward display related words >
- Barnumism,
- acting,
- affectation,
- appearance,
- arabesque,
- arrantness,
- attitudinizing,
- baroque,
- baroqueness,
- bedizenment,
- big talk,
- blatancy,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- boldness,
- cheating,
- chinoiserie,
- color,
- coloring,
- conspicuousness,
- convolution,
- deception,
- delusion,
- demonstration,
- disguise,
- display,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- elaborateness,
- elegance,
- enactment,
- exhibit,
- exhibition,
- exhibitionism,
- exposition,
- exposure,
- facade,
- face,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- fanciness,
- feigning,
- feint,
- fineness,
- flagrance,
- flagrancy,
- flamboyance,
- flashiness,
- flatulence,
- flatulency,
- flaunting,
- floridity,
- floridness,
- flourish,
- floweriness,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- fulsomeness,
- garishness,
- gaudiness,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- grandiloquence,
- grandioseness,
- grandiosity,
- high relief,
- high-flown diction,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- imposture,
- inflatedness,
- inflation,
- lexiphanicism,
- loftiness,
- luridness,
- luxuriance,
- luxuriousness,
- magniloquence,
- masquerade,
- mere rhetoric,
- meretriciousness,
- moresque,
- noticeability,
- notoriety,
- notoriousness,
- obtrusiveness,
- opening,
- orotundity,
- ostentatious complexity,
- outstandingness,
- outward show,
- overelaborateness,
- overelegance,
- overornamentation,
- parade,
- performance,
- platitudinous ponderosity,
- playacting,
- polysyllabic profundity,
- pomposity,
- pompous prolixity,
- pompousness,
- pontification,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- presentation,
- presentment,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretentiousness,
- pretext,
- production,
- projection,
- prominence,
- pronouncedness,
- prose run mad,
- representation,
- retrospective,
- rhetoric,
- rhetoricalness,
- richness,
- rococo,
- salience,
- saliency,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sensationalism,
- sententiousness,
- sham,
- show,
- showiness,
- showing,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- speciousness,
- stiltedness,
- strikingness,
- strong relief,
- swelling utterance,
- swollen phrase,
- swollenness,
- tall talk,
- tortuosity,
- tortuousness,
- tumidity,
- tumidness,
- turgescence,
- turgidity,
- unfolding,
- unfoldment,
- unveiling,
- varnish,
- varnishing day,
- vernissage,
- window dressing
- convolution
collapse
- the action of coiling or twisting or winding together related words >
- Barnumism,
- aduncity,
- affectation,
- aquilinity,
- arachnoid,
- arbor vitae,
- arching,
- archipallium,
- arcuation,
- bedizenment,
- between brain,
- big talk,
- brain stem,
- cerebellar hemispheres,
- cerebellum,
- cerebral cortex,
- cerebrospinal fluid,
- cerebrum,
- circularity,
- complexity,
- complexness,
- complication,
- concameration,
- concavity,
- convexity,
- corpus callosum,
- corpus striatum,
- crabbedness,
- crookedness,
- curvation,
- curvature,
- curving,
- curvity,
- decurvation,
- decurvature,
- diencephalon,
- dura mater,
- endbrain,
- entanglement,
- excurvation,
- excurvature,
- fissure,
- flashiness,
- flatulence,
- flatulency,
- folia,
- forebrain,
- fornix,
- frontal lobe,
- fulsomeness,
- garishness,
- gaudiness,
- glial cells,
- globus pallidus,
- grandiloquence,
- grandioseness,
- grandiosity,
- gray matter,
- gyrus,
- high-flown diction,
- hindbrain,
- hippocampus,
- hookedness,
- hypothalamus,
- incurvation,
- incurvature,
- incurvity,
- inflatedness,
- inflation,
- intricacy,
- intricateness,
- involution,
- involvement,
- lenticular nucleus,
- lexiphanicism,
- limbic lobe,
- little brain,
- lobe,
- loftiness,
- luridness,
- magniloquence,
- mantle,
- medulla oblongata,
- meninges,
- mere rhetoric,
- meretriciousness,
- mesencephalon,
- metencephalon,
- midbrain,
- myelencephalon,
- neopallium,
- occipital lobe,
- optic chiasm,
- orotundity,
- ostentation,
- ostentatious complexity,
- pallium,
- parietal lobe,
- perplexity,
- pia mater,
- pineal body,
- pituitary body,
- platitudinous ponderosity,
- polysyllabic profundity,
- pomposity,
- pompous prolixity,
- pompousness,
- pons,
- pontification,
- pretension,
- pretentiousness,
- prose run mad,
- ramification,
- recurvation,
- recurvature,
- recurvity,
- reticular system,
- rhetoric,
- rhetoricalness,
- rhombencephalon,
- rondure,
- rotundity,
- sensationalism,
- sententiousness,
- showiness,
- sinuosity,
- sinuousness,
- stiltedness,
- subthalamus,
- subtlety,
- swelling utterance,
- swollen phrase,
- swollenness,
- tall talk,
- tanglement,
- technicality,
- telencephalon,
- temporal lobe,
- thalamus,
- tortuosity,
- tortuousness,
- tumidity,
- tumidness,
- turgescence,
- turgidity,
- vaulting,
- ventricle,
- vermis,
- white matter
- rhetoric
collapse
- study of the technique and rules for using language effectively (especially in public speaking)
- using language effectively to please or persuade related words >
- Barnumism,
- affectation,
- articulateness,
- bedizenment,
- big talk,
- bluster,
- bombast,
- choice of words,
- command of language,
- command of words,
- composition,
- convolution,
- debating,
- declamation,
- demagogism,
- dialect,
- diction,
- effective style,
- elocution,
- eloquence,
- eloquent tongue,
- exaggeration,
- expression,
- expression of ideas,
- expressiveness,
- facundity,
- fashion,
- feeling for words,
- felicitousness,
- felicity,
- flashiness,
- flatulence,
- flatulency,
- forensics,
- form of speech,
- formulation,
- fulsomeness,
- fustian,
- garishness,
- gasconade,
- gaudiness,
- gift of expression,
- gift of gab,
- glibness,
- grace of expression,
- grammar,
- grandiloquence,
- grandioseness,
- grandiosity,
- graphicness,
- high-flown diction,
- highfalutin,
- homiletics,
- hot air,
- idiom,
- inflatedness,
- inflation,
- language,
- lecturing,
- lexiphanicism,
- literary style,
- locution,
- loftiness,
- long-windedness,
- luridness,
- magniloquence,
- manner,
- manner of speaking,
- mannerism,
- meaningfulness,
- mere rhetoric,
- meretriciousness,
- mode,
- mode of expression,
- oratory,
- orotundity,
- ostentation,
- ostentatious complexity,
- parlance,
- peculiarity,
- personal style,
- phrase,
- phraseology,
- phrasing,
- platform oratory,
- platitudinous ponderosity,
- polysyllabic profundity,
- pomposity,
- pompous prolixity,
- pompousness,
- pontification,
- pretension,
- pretentiousness,
- prolixity,
- prose run mad,
- public speaking,
- puffery,
- pyrotechnics,
- rabble-rousing,
- rant,
- rhapsody,
- rhetoricalness,
- rodomontade,
- sensationalism,
- sense of language,
- sententiousness,
- sesquipedality,
- showiness,
- silver tongue,
- slickness,
- smoothness,
- speaking,
- speech,
- speechcraft,
- speechification,
- speeching,
- speechmaking,
- stiltedness,
- strain,
- stump speaking,
- style,
- stylistic analysis,
- stylistics,
- swelling utterance,
- swollen phrase,
- swollenness,
- talk,
- tall talk,
- the grand style,
- the plain style,
- the sublime,
- tortuosity,
- tortuousness,
- trick,
- tumidity,
- tumidness,
- turgescence,
- turgidity,
- usage,
- use of words,
- usus loquendi,
- vein,
- verbiage,
- verbosity,
- vividness,
- way,
- windiness,
- wordage,
- wordcraft,
- wordiness,
- wording
- pretension
collapse
- a false or unsupportable quality
- the advancing of a claim; "his pretension to the crown"; "the town still puts forward pretensions as a famous resort" related words >
- Barnumism,
- acting,
- affectation,
- affectedness,
- airs,
- airs and graces,
- alibi,
- ambitions,
- ambitiousness,
- apology,
- appearance,
- appurtenance,
- artificiality,
- aspiration,
- attitudinizing,
- authority,
- bedizenment,
- big talk,
- birthright,
- blind,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- charade,
- cheating,
- claim,
- cloak,
- color,
- coloring,
- conjugal right,
- cover story,
- cover-up,
- deception,
- delusion,
- demand,
- device,
- disguise,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- divine right,
- droit,
- due,
- excuse,
- facade,
- face,
- faculty,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- feigned belief,
- feigning,
- feint,
- flashiness,
- flatulence,
- flatulency,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- fulsomeness,
- garishness,
- gaudiness,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- grandiloquence,
- grandioseness,
- grandiosity,
- guise,
- handle,
- high-flown diction,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- hypocrisy,
- image,
- imposture,
- inalienable right,
- inflatedness,
- inflation,
- insincerity,
- interest,
- lame excuse,
- lexiphanicism,
- locus standi,
- loftiness,
- lofty affectations,
- luridness,
- magniloquence,
- make-believe,
- mannerism,
- mask,
- masquerade,
- mere rhetoric,
- mere show,
- meretriciousness,
- natural right,
- orotundity,
- ostensible motive,
- ostent,
- ostentation,
- ostentatious complexity,
- ostentatiousness,
- outward show,
- pageant,
- platitudinous ponderosity,
- playacting,
- polysyllabic profundity,
- pomposity,
- pompous prolixity,
- pompousness,
- pontification,
- poor excuse,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- power,
- prerogative,
- prescription,
- presumptive right,
- pretending,
- pretense,
- pretensions,
- pretentiousness,
- pretext,
- proper claim,
- property right,
- prose run mad,
- protestation,
- prunes and prisms,
- public image,
- public motive,
- put-off,
- put-on,
- putting on airs,
- refuge,
- representation,
- rhetoric,
- rhetoricalness,
- right,
- screen,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sensationalism,
- sententiousness,
- sham,
- show,
- showiness,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- smoke screen,
- speciousness,
- stalking-horse,
- stiltedness,
- stratagem,
- stylishness,
- subterfuge,
- swelling utterance,
- swollen phrase,
- swollenness,
- tall talk,
- title,
- tortuosity,
- tortuousness,
- trick,
- tumidity,
- tumidness,
- turgescence,
- turgidity,
- unnaturalness,
- varnish,
- veil,
- vested interest,
- vested right,
- window dressing
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