Usually means: Increasing or enhancing intensity or degree.
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  1. heightening: Merriam-Webster
  2. heightening: Collins English Dictionary
  3. heightening: Vocabulary.com
  4. Heightening, heightening: Wordnik
  5. heightening: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. heightening: Wiktionary
  7. Heightening, heightening: Dictionary.com
  8. heightening: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Heightening: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Heightening: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. heightening: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. heightening: FreeDictionary.org
  13. heightening: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. heightening: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. heightening: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (heightening)

▸ noun:  The act by which something is heightened or increased.

Similar:
intensifying, building, rising, increment, tensening, intensifier, ante-upping, increasement, enlargement, crescendo, more...

Opposite:
lowering, decreasing, reducing, diminishing

Types:
intensifying, augmenting, increasing, magnifying, more...

Phrases:
heightening footwear popular in the 70s, more...

Adjectives:
white, general, dramatic, further, emotional, such, gradual, sudden, little, rhetorical, slight

Colors:
    electric blue,     neon green,     bright yellow,     vivid orange,     intense purple, more...



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Similar:
intensifying, building, rising, increment, tensening, intensifier, ante-upping, increasement, enlargement, crescendo, more...

Opposite:
lowering, decreasing, reducing, diminishing

Types:
intensifying, augmenting, increasing, magnifying, more...

Phrases:
heightening footwear popular in the 70s, more...

Adjectives:
white, general, dramatic, further, emotional, such, gradual, sudden, little, rhetorical, slight

Colors:
    electric blue,     neon green,     bright yellow,     vivid orange,     intense purple, more...



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