flatuosity

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noun

flatulence

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Meanings

nounflatuosity (countable and uncountable, plural flatuosities)

plural flatuosities

  1. countableobsoleteuncountableflatulence

    Remove that flatuosity, which is the cause of thy Disease.

    1675, J.Love, Clavis Med.
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    It attenuateth[…]crude and colde humours, and flatuosities abounding in flegmatike and melancholicke persons.

    1600, Richard Surflet, Maison rustique, or, The countrey farme

    The fourth cause is flatuosity : for wind stirred moveth to expel : and we find that ( in effect ) all purgers have in them a raw spirit or wind ; which is the principal cause of tortion in the stomach and belly

    1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC

Origin

Compare French flatuosité.

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flatuosity. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flatuosity

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Chicago

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