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Tympani vs Tympany - What's the difference?

tympani | tympany |

As nouns the difference between tympani and tympany

is that tympani is an alternative spelling of timpani while tympany is the sound made by beating a drum.

tympani

English

Noun

(en noun)
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    tympany

    English

    Noun

    (tympanies)
  • The sound made by beating a drum.
  • (medicine) (distention of the abdomen).
  • Inflation; conceit; bombast; turgidness.
    • Thine 's a tympany of sense. — Dryden.
    (De Quincey)