Definition of "tumidity" [tu•mid•i•ty]

• The condition of being tumid (noun)

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• "Such a tumidity is the key complaint we usually have when, as described above, the trite is presented with the pomp of the sublime."
• "While tumidity desires to transcend the limits of the sublime, the defect which is termed puerility is the direct antithesis of elevation, for it is utterly low and mean and in real truth the most ignoble vice of style."
• "Altogether, tumidity seems particularly hard to avoid."