tympany

noun

Etymology: Coined based on Ancient Greek τύμπανον (túmpanon).

1. The sound made by beating a drum.
2. Tympanites (distention of the abdomen).
3. Inflation; conceit; bombast; turgidness.

   “Thine's a tympany of sense.”

   “Dr. Johnson, for his triads and his antithetic balances, he taxes more than once with a plethoric and tautologic tympany of sentence”