The quality of language or style when it is swollen with big or pompous words; turgidity, bombast.

figurative. ‘Airiness’, emptiness, want of substance; inflated or verbose style.

The action of rant, v. (in various senses); an instance of this.

figurative. Turgidity of language, style, or deportment; affected grandeur; bombast: = tumidity, n. b. Obsolete.

figurative. An inflated or bombastic style of language.

figurative. A swelling, as of pride, arrogance, self-conceit, etc., figured as a disease; a condition of being inflated or puffed up; an excess of…

The action or condition of swelling, in figurative senses. Turgid or inflated style of language. Obsolete.

figurative. Inflation of language; grandiloquence, pomposity, bombast; also with a and plural an example of this.

The quality of being turgid; = turgidity, n.

The quality or condition of being tumid; swollenness. figurative in reference to language: see tumid, adj. 2.

Nonsensical talk; overblown or empty rhetoric; claptrap.

The quality of being mouthy.

Extravagant or bombastic praise of the United States; aggressive assertion of United States interests or claims; the attitude behind these; (hence)…

the quality of being inflated.

Pompous or pretentious language; bombast.

With capital initial. The elaborate or inflated language or writing style regarded, esp. in the late 19th cent., as characteristic of leading…

The action of mouth, v. (in various senses); spec. the action of speaking in an empty, pompous, verbose, or foolish manner; an instance of this.

figurative in reference to language.