Dictionary Definition
heightening adj : reaching a higher intensity;
"their heightening fears" [syn: heightening(a)]
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Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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