ventosity

plural ventosities

1. uncountableusuallyThe quality or state of being windy or flatulent; windiness or flatulence.

   On the one hand, a sternness and a coarseness of structure which changes its stem into a stake, and its leaf into a spine; on the other, an utter flaccidity and ventosity of structure, which changes its stem into a riband, and its leaf into a bubble.

   1888, John Ruskin, Proserpina, Volume 1

2. broadlyuncountableusuallyvainglory; pride.

   Seek something better than ventosity beneath the sky.

   1925, Honore de Balzac, Droll Stories, Volume 1

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   Both of them were youths of a Sprightly Genius, and of an Alert Apprehension, attended, in the case of GRANDOLPH, with a mighty heat and ebullition of Fancy, which led early to a certain frothiness or ventosity in speech.

   1891, Various, Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101, November 7, 1891

   And surely no small number of those who are of a solid nature, and who, from the want of this ventosity, cannot spread all sail in pursuit of their own honour, suffer some prejudice and lose dignity by their moderation."

   1907, John Morley, Studies in Literature