Ventosity
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The quality or state of being windy or flatulent; windiness or flatulence. uncountable, usually
"On the one hand, a sternness and a coarseness of structure which changes its stem into a stake, and its leaf into a spine; on the other, an utter flaccidity and ventosity of structure, which changes its stem into a riband, and its leaf into a bubble."
- 2 vainglory; pride. broadly, uncountable, usually
"Both of them were youths of a Sprightly Genius, and of an Alert Apprehension, attended, in the case of GRANDOLPH, with a mighty heat and ebullition of Fancy, which led early to a certain frothiness or ventosity in speech."
Example
More examples"On the one hand, a sternness and a coarseness of structure which changes its stem into a stake, and its leaf into a spine; on the other, an utter flaccidity and ventosity of structure, which changes its stem into a riband, and its leaf into a bubble."
Etymology
From ventose + -ity, from Latin ventositas.