inflation vs reflation

inflation and reflation both are nouns.

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

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

inflation: a general and progressive increase in prices
reflation: inflation of currency after a period of deflation; restore the system to a previous state

Other hyponyms of inflation include cost-pull inflation, demand-pull inflation, stagflation, slumpflation.

inflation (noun)	reflation (noun)
the act of filling something with air	inflation of currency after a period of deflation; restore the system to a previous state
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