- intumescence (n.)
- "swollen state, expansion," 1650s, from French intumescence (17c.), from Latin intumescere "to swell up, rise, be elevated," of sounds, "grow louder," figuratively, "grow excited, become enraged," from in- "in" (see in- (2)) + tumescere "begin to swell, swell up" (see tumescence).
