'Heightening' definitions:
Definition of 'heightening'
From: WordNet
adjective
Reaching a higher intensity; "their heightening fears"
Definition of 'Heightening'
From: GCIDE
- Heighten \Height"en\ (h[imac]t"'n), v. t. [Written also highten.] [imp. & p. p. Heightened; p. pr. & vb. n. Heightening.]
- 1. To make high; to raise higher; to elevate. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To carry forward; to advance; to increase; to augment; to aggravate; to intensify; to render more conspicuous; -- used of things, good or bad; as, to heighten beauty; to heighten a flavor or a tint. "To heighten our confusion." --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- An aspect of mystery which was easily heightened to the miraculous. --Hawthorne. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'heightening'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accelerando,
- acceleration,
- aggrandizement,
- aggravation,
- amplification,
- annoyance,
- augmentation,
- ballyhoo,
- beefing-up,
- big talk,
- blowing up,
- blowup,
- burlesque,
- caricature,
- concentration,
- condensation,
- consolidation,
- contentiousness,
- deepening,
- deliberate aggravation,
- deterioration,
- dilatation,
- dilation,
- embittering,
- embitterment,
- enhancement,
- enlargement,
- exacerbation,
- exaggerating,
- exaggeration,
- exasperation,
- excess,
- exorbitance,
- expansion,
- explosion,
- extravagance,
- extreme,
- grandiloquence,
- heating-up,
- huckstering,
- hyperbole,
- hyperbolism,
- increase,
- inflation,
- information explosion,
- inordinacy,
- intensification,
- irritation,
- magnification,
- overemphasis,
- overestimation,
- overkill,
- overstatement,
- pickup,
- population explosion,
- prodigality,
- profuseness,
- provocation,
- puffery,
- puffing up,
- redoubling,
- reinforcement,
- sensationalism,
- sharpening,
- souring,
- speedup,
- step-up,
- strengthening,
- stretching,
- superlative,
- tall talk,
- tightening,
- touting,
- travesty,
- worsening