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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(uncountable) The process of swelling up or the condition of being swollen..
...but there are other causes of change, which, though slow in their operation, and invisible in their progress, are perhaps as much superior to human resistance, as the revolutions of the sky, or intumescence of the tide.
Use intumescence when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Intumescence means (uncountable) The process of swelling up or the condition of being swollen..
Common synonyms include inturgescence, tumescence, intumescence, swellage.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
...but there are other causes of change, which, though slow in their operation, and invisible in their progress, are perhaps as much superior to human resistance, as the revolutions of the sky, or intumescence of the tide.
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