noun (n)

• a general and progressive increase in prices(noun.process)

  Example:
  In inflation everything gets more valuable except money.
  

  Synonym:
  rising prices
  Antonym:
  disinflation
  

  source: wordnet30
• (cosmology) a brief exponential expansion of the universe (faster than the speed of light) postulated to have occurred shortly after the big bang(noun.event)

  source: wordnet30
• lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity(noun.attribute)

  Synonym:
  ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, puffiness, splashiness
  

  source: wordnet30
• the act of filling something with air(noun.act)

  Antonym:
  deflation
  

  source: wordnet30
• The act or process of inflating, or the state of being inflated, as with air or gas; distention; expansion; enlargement.(noun)

  source: webster1913