What is "turgidness"

Turgid \Tur"gid\, a. [L. turgidus, from turgere to swell.]

1. Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent or expansive force; swelled; swollen; bloated; inflated; tumid; -- especially applied to an enlarged part of the body; as, a turgid limb; turgid fruit.

   A bladder . . . held near the fire grew turgid.
   --Boyle.

2. Swelling in style or language; vainly ostentatious; bombastic; pompous; as, a turgid style of speaking. [1913 Webster] -- Tur"gid*ly, adv. -- Tur"gid*ness, n.

n. The condition of being turgid; turgidity

n. pompously embellished language [syn: turgidity, flatulence]