Usually means: Enhancement by exaggeration in rhetoric.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. auxesis: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  2. auxesis: Collins English Dictionary
  3. auxesis: Vocabulary.com
  4. auxesis: Wordnik
  5. auxesis: Wiktionary
  6. auxesis: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. auxesis: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. auxesis: Dictionary.com
  9. Auxesis (figure of speech), Auxesis (rhetoric), Auxesis: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Auxesis: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. auxesis: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. auxesis: Rhymezone
  13. Auxesis: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. auxesis: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. auxesis: FreeDictionary.org
  16. auxesis: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  17. auxesis: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. auxesis: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (No longer online)
  2. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. auxesis: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. auxesis: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. auxesis: Medical dictionary

(Note: See auxetic as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (auxesis)

noun:  (rhetoric) A rhetorical device whereby the subject matter is made greater, particularly
noun:  (rhetoric) Overstatement, hyperbole.
noun:  (rhetoric, obsolete) Arrangement of a series in ascending order.
noun:  (biology) Biological growth, (now usually restricted to) expansion or growth of an organism apart from that due to cellular division.
noun:  (chemistry) The condition of being auxetic

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