Akademik

puffiness

noun

1. lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity

• Syn:

↑ostentation, ↑ostentatiousness, ↑pomposity, ↑pompousness, ↑pretentiousness, ↑splashiness, ↑inflation

• Derivationally related forms: ↑ostentatious (for: ↑splashiness), ↑pretentious (for: ↑pretentiousness), ↑pompous (for: ↑pompousness), ↑pompous (for: ↑pomposity), ↑ostentatious (for: ↑ostentatiousness)

• Hypernyms: ↑inelegance

2. an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement

• Syn: ↑swelling, ↑lump

• Derivationally related forms: ↑puffy, ↑swell (for: ↑swelling)

• Hypernyms: ↑enlargement, ↑symptom

• Hyponyms:

↑spermatocele, ↑bloat, ↑bunion, ↑edema, ↑oedema, ↑hydrops, ↑dropsy, ↑hematocele, ↑haematocele, ↑hematocoele, ↑haematocoele, ↑intumescence, ↑intumescency, ↑iridoncus, ↑lymphogranuloma, ↑oscheocele, ↑oscheocoele, ↑tumidity, ↑tumidness

Useful english dictionary. 2012.