puffiness

puffiness
noun
1. lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
• Syn:
• 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:

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