tympany

English

Etymology

Coined based on Ancient Greek τύμπανον (túmpanon).

Pronunciation

Noun

tympany (countable and uncountable, plural tympanies)

  1. The sound made by beating a drum.
  2. (medicine) Tympanites (distention of the abdomen).
  3. Inflation; conceit; bombast; turgidness.
    • John Dryden
      Thine's a tympany of sense.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of De Quincey to this entry?)
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