constipations

Noun

constipation (countable and uncountable, plural constipations)

1. A state of the bowels in which the evacuations are infrequent and difficult, or the intestines become filled with hardened faeces.
   • If you also knew how to combine foods—that is, what foods eaten together “set well,” you need never have indigestion, constipation or any of the headachy, stomachachy ills they lead to.1917 February 12, “If You Knew What Foods?” (advertisement), in The Independent, volume 59, number 3558, New York: Independent Corporation, page 280

   Synonyms:

   costiveness

2. The act of crowding anything into a lesser space, or the state of being crowded or pressed together; condensation.