tympanyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Coined based on Ancient Greek τύμπανον (túmpanon).

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɪmpəni/
• ハイフネーション: tym‧pa‧ny
• 異形同音異義語: timpani, tympani

名詞

tympany (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 tympanies)

1. The sound made by beating a drum.
2. (medicine) Tympanites (distention of the abdomen).
3. Inflation; conceit; bombast; turgidness.
   • 1682, John Dryden, Mac Flecknoe

     Thine's a tympany of sense.

   • 1828, Thomas De Quincey, Elements of Rhetoric (published 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