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puffiness
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun puffiness has 2 senses
- puffiness(n = noun.state) lump, swelling - an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement; Array has particulars: spermatocele, bloat, bunion, dropsy, edema, hydrops, oedema, haematocele, haematocoele, hematocele, hematocoele, intumescence, intumescency, iridoncus, lymphogranuloma, oscheocele, oscheocoele, tumidity, tumidness
- puffiness(n = noun.attribute) inflation, ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, splashiness - lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity; Array is a kind of inelegance
is a kind of symptom, enlargement
Derived form adjective puffy2
ROGET THESAURUS
puffiness
Expansion
N expansion, increase of size, enlargement, extension, augmentation, amplification, ampliation, aggrandizement, spread, increment, growth, development, pullulation, swell, dilation, rarefaction, turgescence, turgidness, turgidity, dispansion, obesity, hydrocephalus, hydrophthalmus, dropsy, tumefaction, intumescence, swelling, tumor, diastole, distension, puffing, puffiness, inflation, pandiculation, dilatability, expansibility, germination, growth, upgrowth, accretion, budding, gemmation, overgrowth, overdistension, hypertrophy, tympany, bulb, plumper, superiority of size, big bang, Hubble constant, expanded larger, &c (large), swollen, expansive, wide open, wide spread, flabelliform, overgrown, exaggerated, bloated, fat, turgid, tumid, hypertrophied, dropsical, pot bellied, swag bellied, edematous, oedematous, obese, puffy, pursy, blowzy, bigswoln, distended, patulous, bulbous, full blown, full grown, full formed, big, abdominous, enchymatous, rhipidate, tumefacient, tumefying.
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