Synonyms for swelling
Most common
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Bloating — the state of being swollen
bloating, distension, dilatation, expansion, dilation, intumescence, inflation, turgidity, turgescence, tumescence, tumidity, swollenness, bloatedness, ectasia, ectasis, inturgescence dated
2. Bulge
bulge, bump, protuberance, tumor US, tumour UK, prominence, protrusion, hump, jut, extrusion, excrescence, gibbosity, gibbousness
Other
rising, node, blain, tumefaction, incrassation, aposteme dated
Definitions
- n. 1
The state of being swollen.
- n. 2
Anything swollen, especially any abnormally swollen part of the body.
- n. 3
A rising, as of passion or anger.
Forms
- Plural
- swellings → bloatings, distensions, dilatations, expansions…
Example sentences
- dilation Time dilation is an interesting phenomenon.
- bloating I must move otherwise I'll have bloating!
- bump Ziri gave Rima a bump with the front of his truck.
- bulge I noticed the bulge that appeared between his legs.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| swelling | steady | |
| dilation | rising | |
| bloating | rising | |
| dilatation | falling | |
| distension | steady | |
| bump | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- jut1
- 4 letters
- bump1, node1, lump1, hump1
- 5 letters
- tumor2, bulge1, blain1
- 6 letters
- rising2, tumour
- 7 letters
- ectasia, ectasis
- 8 letters
- dilation3, bloating2, tumidity, aposteme
- 9 letters
- expansion3, inflation3, extrusion3, puffiness, turgidity, gibbosity
- 10 letters
- prominence3, protrusion, dilatation4, distension, tumescence
- 11 letters
- excrescence, turgescence, swollenness, bloatedness3, gibbousness, tumefaction
- 12 letters
- protuberance4, intumescence, incrassation
- 13 letters
- inturgescence
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (tumor2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- gonflement
- Italiano
- gonfiamento