heightening

Speech parts

1. heightening - Noun

2. heightening - Verb

4. heightening - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Heighten

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

ascension escalade growth increase increasing aggravation growing rise expansion raise rising compound raising enhance boost
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Antonyms

decline descent damaging degradation downfall deterioration
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Examples

Love is something difficult and it is more difficult than other things because in other conflicts nature herself enjoins men to collect themselves, to take themselves firmly in the hand with all their strength, while in the heightening of love the impulse is to give oneself wholly away. Rainer Maria Rilke

And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty's heightening. Matthew Arnold

Whenever a prophet got into the superconscious state by heightening his emotional nature, he brought away from it not only some truths, but some fanaticism also, some superstition which injured the world as much as the greatness of the teaching helped. Swami Vivekananda

This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal. Lord Byron

From the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire, let freedom ring. From the mighty mountains of New York, let freedom ring. From the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania, let freedom ring .... Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill.... Martin Luther King Jr.

their heightening fears Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

heightened sensory awareness heightened spirits heightener heightfield heighth heighthon