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TUMIDITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does tumidity mean?
• TUMIDITY (noun)
The noun TUMIDITY has 1 sense:
1. slight swelling of an organ or part
Familiarity information: TUMIDITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Slight swelling of an organ or part
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
tumidity; tumidness
Hypernyms ("tumidity" is a kind of...):
lump; puffiness; swelling (an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tumidity"):
tumescence (tumidity resulting from the presence of blood or other fluid in the tissues)
Derivation:
tumid (of sexual organs; stiff and rigid)
tumid (abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas)
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