heightening

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of heighten

plural heightenings

1. The act by which something is heightened or increased.

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

   2003, Gary Null, Germs, Biological Warfare, Vaccinations: What You Need to Know

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   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.

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