noun. The state of being turgid; a swelling or swelled state of a thing; distention beyond the natural state by some internal force or agent, as of a limb.

noun. Pompousness; inflated manner of writing or speaking; bombast: as, the turgidness of language or style.

noun. The condition of being turgid; turgidity

noun. pompously embellished language

"This is partly because we still think of Tony Blair as the prime minister (and he is often on American television rather pretending he is still prime minister), and yet, confusingly, he isn't running, and partly because his stand-in, Gordon Brown, who is actually the prime minister, is a figure of almost incomprehensible dourness and turgidness."

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