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pompousness, inflation, pretentiousness, ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, puffiness, splashiness | lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity | |
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inflation, rising prices | a general and progressive increase in prices | |
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inflation | [in cosmology] a brief exponential expansion of the universe (faster than the speed of light) postulated to have occurred shortly after the big bang | |
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inflation | the act of filling something with air |