Noun

• S: (n) inflation, rising prices (a general and progressive increase in prices) "in inflation everything gets more valuable except money"
• S: (n) inflation ((cosmology) a brief exponential expansion of the universe (faster than the speed of light) postulated to have occurred shortly after the big bang)
• S: (n) ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, puffiness, splashiness, inflation (lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity)
• S: (n) inflation (the act of filling something with air)