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Puffiness

Definition: Puffiness

Puffiness

Noun

1. Abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Puffiness

Synonyms: lump (n), swelling (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Puffiness

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Expansion

Noun: expansion; increase; of size; enlargement, extension, augmentation; amplification, ampliation; aggrandizement, spread, increment, growth, development, pullulation, swell, dilation, rarefaction; turgescence, turgidness, turgidity; dispansion; obesity; (size); hydrocephalus, hydrophthalmus; dropsy, tumefaction, intumescence, swelling, tumor, diastole, distension; puffing, puffiness; inflation; pandiculation.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Puffiness

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Check with your doctor or nurse if you notice swelling or puffiness in your face, hands, feet, or abdomen. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Puffiness

"Puffiness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Puffiness" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%9117,287

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Puffiness

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

eye puffiness

23

under eye puffiness

16

puffiness under eyes

6

undereye puffiness

6

puffiness

3

reduce eye puffiness

3

facial puffiness

2

eyes puffiness

2

bag eliminate eye natural puffiness under ways

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Puffiness

Language Translations for "puffiness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏إنتفاخ (bulge, distention, swell, swelling, tumescence). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

подпухналост (turgidity). (various references)

   

French

  

gonflement, boursouflure (chromosomal puff, puff), bouffissure. (various references)

   

German

  

Geschwollenheit (turgidity). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

οίηση (conceit, priggishness, self-conceit, stuffiness), δύσπνοια (breathlessness, pursiness, short-windedness, wheeziness). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

תפיחות (swelling, tumefaction, tumescence, tumidity). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

puffadtság. (various references)

   

Manx

  

attys (orgasm). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

uffinesspay

   

Russian 

  

одутловатость. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

podbulost. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

hinchazón (flatulence, flatulency, lump, puff, swelling), ampulosidad (bombast). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

süslülük, kabartı (blotch, bulging, exanthema, protuberance, puff, pustule, raise, swelling, tumefaction, whelk), şişlik (blain, boss, chilblain, intumescence, protuberance, proud flesh, puff, rising, swelling, thickening, turgescence), şişkinlik (bulge, inflation, intumescence, surfeit, swell, swelling, tumescence, tumidity, turgidness), aşırı süs (fandangle). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

одутлість, набряклість. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Puffiness

Derivations

Words beginning with "puffiness": puffinesses. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Puffiness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: puffies, puffings. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Puffiness"

Words rhyming with "puffiness" (pronounced 'Puff"i*ness'): Abjectedness, Abjectness, Ableness, Abominableness, Abortiveness, Abruptness, Absentness, Absoluteness, Absorptiveness, Abstemiousness, Abstersiveness, Abstractedness, Abstractiveness, Abstractness, Abstruseness, Absurdness, Abusiveness, Acceptableness, Accessariness, Accessoriness, Accidentalness, Accommodableness, Accommodateness, Accurateness, Accustomedness, Acidness, Acquaintedness, Acquisitiveness, Acrimoniousness, Activeness, Actualness, Acuteness, Adaptedness, Adaptiveness, Adaptness, Addictedness, Addle-patedness, Adeptness, Adequateness, Adhesiveness, Admirableness, Adorableness, Adroitness, Adultness, Advantageousness, Adventurousness, Adverseness, Advisable-ness, Advisedness, Affableness. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Puffiness

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-f-f-i-n-p-s-s-u"

-2 letters: infuses, puffins, puisnes, supines.

-3 letters: infuse, puffin, puisne, sniffs, snipes, snuffs, spiffs, spines, supine.

-4 letters: fiefs, fifes, fines, fuses, issue, neifs, nisus, peins, penis, pines, puffs, puses, seifs, sines, sinus, sipes, sniff, snipe, snips, snuff, spies, spiff, spine, spins, spues, supes.

-5 letters: effs, fens, fess, feus, fief, fife, fine, fins, funs, fuse, fuss, neif.

 Words containing the letters "e-f-f-i-n-p-s-s-u"
 

+2 letters: puffinesses.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Rhymes
9. Anagrams
10. Bibliography


  

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