inelegance vs inflation

inflation vs inelegance

inelegance and inflation both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
inelegance	Yes	No	No	No
inflation	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, inflation is a hyponym of inelegance; that is, inflation is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than inelegance:

inelegance: the quality of lacking refinement and good taste
inflation: lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity

Other hyponyms of inelegance include awkwardness, clumsiness, gracelessness, stiffness, dowdiness, drabness, homeliness, manginess, seediness, shabbiness, sleaziness, tweediness, coarseness, commonness, grossness, raunch, vulgarism, vulgarity, crudeness, roughness, boorishness, uncouthness, ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, puffiness, splashiness, tastelessness.

inelegance (noun)	inflation (noun)
the quality of lacking refinement and good taste	the act of filling something with air
	lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
	(cosmology) a brief exponential expansion of the universe (faster than the speed of light) postulated to have occurred shortly after the big bang
	a general and progressive increase in prices

Difference between inelegance and inflation

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