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    TUMIDITY

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Slight swelling of an organ or partplay

    Synonyms:

    tumidity; tumidness

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

    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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