tympany
English edit
Etymology edit
Coined based on Ancient Greek τύμπανον (túmpanon).
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /ˈtɪmpəni/
- Hyphenation: tym‧pa‧ny
- Homophones: timpani, tympani
Noun edit
tympany (countable and uncountable, plural tympanies)
- The sound made by beating a drum.
- (medicine) Tympanites (distention of the abdomen).
- Inflation; conceit; bombast; turgidness.
- 1682, John Dryden, Mac Flecknoe:
- Thine's a tympany of sense.
- 1828, Thomas De Quincey, “Elements of Rhetoric”, in Blackwood's Magazine:
- Dr. Johnson, for his triads and his antithetic balances, he taxes more than once with a plethoric and tautologic tympany of sentence