tympany

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)The sound made by beating a drum.
2. (countable, uncountable)Tympanites (distention of the abdomen).
3. (countable, uncountable)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”