inflation

Noun
  1. A general and progressive increase in prices (synset 113520031)
    "in inflation everything gets more valuable except money"
    is a type of: economic process - any process affecting the production and development and management of material wealth
    subtypes:
    • cost-pull inflation - inflation caused by an increase in the costs of production
    • demand-pull inflation - inflation caused by an increase in demand or in the supply of money
    • reflation - inflation of currency after a period of deflation; restore the system to a previous state
    • stagflation - a period of slow economic growth and high unemployment (stagnation) while prices rise (inflation)
    same as: rising prices
  2. (cosmology) a brief exponential expansion of the universe (faster than the speed of light) postulated to have occurred shortly after the big bang (synset 107423855)
    referred to in: cosmogeny, cosmogony, cosmology - the branch of astrophysics that studies the origin and evolution and structure of the universe
    is a type of: blowup, detonation, explosion - a violent release of energy caused by a chemical or nuclear reaction
  3. Lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity (synset 104825154)
    is a type of: inelegance - the quality of lacking refinement and good taste
    same as: ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, puffiness, splashiness
  4. The act of filling something with air (synset 100368106)
    is a type of: enlargement, expansion - the act of increasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope

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