ventosity

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The quality or state of being windy or flatulent; windiness or flatulence. uncountable,usually
    — On the one hand, a sternness and a coarseness of structure which changes its stem into a stake, and its leaf into a spine; on the other, an utter flaccidity and ventosity of structure, which changes its stem into a riband, and its leaf into a bubble.
  2. vainglory; pride. broadly,uncountable,usually
    — Both of them were youths of a Sprightly Genius, and of an Alert Apprehension, attended, in the case of GRANDOLPH, with a mighty heat and ebullition of Fancy, which led early to a certain frothiness or ventosity in speech.

词形变化

ventosities plural

词源

From ventose + -ity, from Latin ventositas.
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