Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being turgid; a swelling or swelled state of a thing; distention beyond the natural state by some internal force or agent, as of a limb.
- noun Pompousness; inflated manner of writing or speaking; bombast: as, the turgidness of language or style.
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- noun The condition of being
turgid ;turgidity
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- noun pompously embellished language
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Examples
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Mieville gropes for a prose style in the opening hundred pages or so, meaning that the opening part of the book is delivered in short, staccato bursts, one moment enjoyable, the next annoyingly obtuse to the point of turgidness.
Kraken by China Mieville Adam Whitehead 2010
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Mieville gropes for a prose style in the opening hundred pages or so, meaning that the opening part of the book is delivered in short, staccato bursts, one moment enjoyable, the next annoyingly obtuse to the point of turgidness.
Archive 2010-04-01 Adam Whitehead 2010
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This is partly because we still think of Tony Blair as the prime minister (and he is often on American television rather pretending he is still prime minister), and yet, confusingly, he isn't running, and partly because his stand-in, Gordon Brown, who is actually the prime minister, is a figure of almost incomprehensible dourness and turgidness.
Michael Wolff: We Don't Care About the British Election--but Some Pointers Anyway 2010
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It was also a relief from the turgidness of Welsh Politics.
Who cares? Dylan Jones-Evans 2009
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There is then in the structure of his words something tragic and something comic, something blustering and something low, an obscurity, a vulgarness, a turgidness, and a strutting, with a nauseous prattling and fooling.
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As he began rotating again, his turgidness now evident, even through her gown.
Almost a Whisper Charlene Cross 1994
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As he began rotating again, his turgidness now evident, even through her gown.
Almost a Whisper Charlene Cross 1994
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-- 'For my own part,' he at once replied, 'I look upon Aeschylus as the first of poets, for his verses roll superbly; 'tis nothing but incoherence, bombast and turgidness.'
The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes
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All his compositions were a mixture of truth and turgidness, of lucid strength and faltering stupidity.
Jean-Christophe, Volume I Romain Rolland 1905
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Paper colored by turmeric introduced into the other tube had its color much deepened; the acid matter gave a very slight degree of turgidness to solution of nitrate of soda.
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