inflations

Currency value drops

Inflations is the plural of inflation, referring to multiple instances or types of rising prices or expanding volumes.

Economists might compare inflations across different decades or analyze the inflations that followed major wars.

The term also covers literal instances of filling with air or gas: successive inflations of the balloon.

economic

prices

Amounts charged for goods

purchasing power · cost of living · Federal Reserve · interest rates · money supply · stagflation · CPI · consumer prices · Zimbabwe · Weimar

physical

expansion

Increase in scope

ballooning · puffing · blowing up · dilation · filling · pressurization · tires · airbags · lungs · bladders

exaggeration

overstatement

Claim beyond the facts

amplification · overestimation · padding · puffery · aggrandizement · bloating · overstating · self-importance · ego · grandiosity

linguistic

affixation

Binding morphemes to stems

word formation · suffixation · prefixation · paradigms · pluralization · verb forms · morphemes · agglutination · derivation

Opposites
economic price movement

inflationsdeflations

Reductions in volume

deflation · disinflation · price stability · depressions

physical expansion/contraction

inflationsdeflations

Reductions in volume

contractions · collapses · shrinkages · compressions · flattenings

quantity/magnitude alteration

inflationsdeflations

Reductions in volume

understatements · minimizations · underestimations · reductions · diminutions

Phrases
Family

inflation, hyperinflation, overinflation, reinflation, disinflation

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated G