intumescence
intumescence noun: the process of swelling up or the condition of being swollen.
Noun
intumescence (countable and uncountable, plural intumescences)
- The process of swelling up or the condition of being swollen.
- Synonyms:
- inturgescence, tumescence, swellage, turgescence, bloatedness, bloating, distension, ectasia, ectasis, nodosity
- An instance of such swelling.
- ...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, page 10
- Synonyms:
- incrassation, tumescence, aposteme, inturgescence, swelling, swollenness
intumescence meaning in Tamil, Bengali and Malayalam
intumescence in Tamil
- வீக்கம், புடைப்பு, பரு, சோபை
intumescence in Bengali
- ফুলে ওঠা, স্ফীত হওয়া
intumescence in Malayalam
- bulging, swelling, bloating
- വീക്കം, നീർ, നീര്, പുപ്ഫുസതാപനം, നീർക്കെട്ട്, നീർവീക്കം
Synonyms of intumescence
- inturgescence
- tumescence
- swellage
- turgescence
- bloatedness
- bloating
- distension
- ectasia
- ectasis
- nodosity
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Forms of intumescence
| plural | intumescences |
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Origin of intumescence
See intumescent.
Questions about intumescence
- What does intumescence mean?
- Intumescence means the process of swelling up or the condition of being swollen.
- What is intumescence in Tamil?
- Intumescence in Tamil is வீக்கம், புடைப்பு, பரு. See Intumescence meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is intumescence?
- Intumescence is a noun.
- What is the plural of intumescence?
- The plural of intumescence is intumescences.
Words near intumescence in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: intumescence (page history and authors); intumescence (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); intumescence (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); intumescence (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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