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inflation

English

  1. 🔊 the act of filling something with air
  2. 🔊 (cosmology) a brief exponential expansion of the universe (faster than the speed of light) postulated to have occurred shortly after the big bang
  3. 🔊 a general and progressive increase in prices
    “in inflation everything gets more valuable except money”
  4. 🔊 lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity

Similar words

ostentation ostentatiousness pomposity pompousness pretentiousness puffiness splashiness rising prices barnumism access accession accretion accrual accruement accumulation addition advance affectation aggrandizement amplification appreciation ascent augmentation ballooning