Inflation
nounverified·updated May 18, 2026
(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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the act of filling something with air
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lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
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a general and progressive increase in prices
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Entity Type
Unknown—glossary_import_default_pending_classifier
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unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- synonym
- ostentationostentatiousnesspompositypompousnesspretentiousnesspuffinessrising pricessplashiness
- plural
- Inflations
- possessive
- Inflation's
- pluralpossessive
- Inflations'