Synonyms for flatulence
Most common
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Gas
gas, flatulency dated
2. Turgidity
Other
wind, bottom burp, flatus, windiness, flatuency rare
Definitions
- n. 1
The state of having gas, often malodorous, trapped (and when released, frequently with noise) in the digestive system of a human and some other animals; wind; and when released, a flatus, a fart.
- n. 2
The release of such gas; breaking wind.
Related words
- Word family
- flatulate
- Phrases
- flatulence tax
Forms
- Plural
- flatulences → gases, flatulencies, turgidities, winds…
Example sentences
- gas The reporter covered the gas explosion in Shibuya.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| flatulence | rising | |
| gas | falling | |
| turgidity | falling | |
| turgidness | steady | |
| flatus | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- gas1
- 4 letters
- wind1
- 6 letters
- flatus
- 9 letters
- turgidity, windiness, flatuency
- 10 letters
- flatulency, turgidness
In other languages
- Français
- flatulence
- Italiano
- flatulenza