flatulence

/'flætjuləns/ Cách viết khác : (flatulency) /'flætjulənsi/

Thân thiện

A patient describes symptoms of flatulence to a doctor.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • A state of excessive gas in the alimentary canal: The condition of having an excessive amount of gas in the stomach or intestines.
   • Pompously embellished language: Speech or writing that is overly elaborate, pretentious, and ultimately empty or insubstantial.

Usage Examples

• Noun (Medical):
  • Eating beans can sometimes cause flatulence.
  • The patient complained of abdominal pain and flatulence.
• Noun (Linguistic/Rhetorical):
  • The politician's speech was criticized for its flatulence and lack of concrete proposals.
  • Academic flatulence can obscure the real meaning of a text.

Advanced Usage

• "Intellectual flatulence": Used to describe ideas or arguments that are inflated and lack real substance.
  • The debate was filled with intellectual flatulence, offering more heat than light.

Variants and Related Words

• Flatulent (adj):

  • Suffering from or causing excessive gas in the alimentary canal.
  • (Of speech or writing) Inflated and pretentious.

    • He felt flatulent after the large meal.
    • The article was dismissed as flatulent prose.

• Flatulency (n): A less common variant of flatulence with the same meanings.

Synonyms

• For the medical condition: Gas, bloating, tympanites.
• For the rhetorical style: Bombast, grandiloquence, turgidity, verbosity, pomposity.

Related Idioms

• "Full of hot air": This idiom is conceptually related to the rhetorical meaning of , describing someone who talks a lot but says little of value.
  • Don't listen to him; he's just full of hot air.

Học thuật

Noun

1. pompously embellished language
2. a state of excessive gas in the alimentary canal

Từ đồng nghĩa

• turgidity
• turgidness
• flatulency
• gas