[f. as prec. + -NESS.] The quality of being turgid; = TURGIDITY.
1757. Warburton, Lett. to Hurd, 15 Jan. (1809), 227. The turgidness of a young scribbler.
1817. Coleridge, Biog. Lit., i. 2. A general turgidness of diction, and a profusion of new-coined double epithets.
1864. Burton, Scot Abr., II. i. 43. That strange flighty turgidness of style which Urquhart had caught by working so much on Rabelais.
