inflation

noun

1. 1

   the act of filling something with air

2. 2

   lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity

3. 3

   (cosmology) a brief exponential expansion of the universe (faster than the speed of light) postulated to have occurred shortly after the big bang

4. 4

   a general and progressive increase in prices

   in inflation everything gets more valuable except money