intumescency

1. 1.

   swelling up with blood or other fluids (as with congestion)

   Synonymsintumescence

   Broaderswelling

   Narrowerhematoma
2. 2.

   the increase in volume of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water)

   Synonymsintumescenceswelling

   Broaderchemical process

Other forms of intumescency

plural

intumescencies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about intumescency

What does intumescency mean?

intumescency means "swelling up with blood or other fluids (as with congestion)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in intumescency?

intumescency has 5 syllables: in-tu-me-scen-cy. The stress falls on "me".

What is another word for intumescency?

Close synonyms include intumescence, intumescence, swelling. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is intumescency a common word?

intumescency is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.