different between swelling vs intumescence
swelling
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?sw?l.??/
- Rhymes: -?l??
Noun
swelling (countable and uncountable, plural swellings)
- The state of being swollen.
- Anything swollen, especially any abnormally swollen part of the body.
- (figuratively) A rising, as of passion or anger.
Translations
Verb
swelling
- present participle of swell
See also
- edema
Anagrams
- Wellings, wellings
Middle English
Noun
swelling
- Alternative form of swellynge
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intumescence
English
Etymology
See intumescent.
Noun
intumescence (countable and uncountable, plural intumescences)
- (uncountable) the process of swelling up or the condition of being swollen
- (countable) an instance of such swelling
- 1755, Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language, 10:
- ...but there are other causes of change, which, though slow in their operation, and invisible in their progress, are perhaps as much superior to human resistance, as the revolutions of the sky, or intumescence of the tide.
- 1755, Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language, 10:
Related terms
- intumescent
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