heightening

English

Verb

heightening

1. present participle and gerund of heighten

Noun

heightening (plural heightenings)

1. The act by which something is heightened or increased.
   • 2003, Gary Null, Germs, Biological Warfare, Vaccinations: What You Need to Know:

     For them, there was "an increase in total lymphocyte production, and a higher IG antibody response," among other heightenings.

   • 1970, Heinrich Wölfflin, Drawings of Albrecht Dürer, page 4:

     There are flourishes and coloratura passages in this art, heightenings and sharpenings of the line that serve only to give the needy linear system a value of its own in confrontation with nature.