Definition for Heightening:

• rising progressively; " the building suspense"; " the heightening drama"

Synonyms for Heightening:

• n.

  •aggravation (noun)
  • intensification.
  •elevation (noun)
  • levitation,
  • elevation,
  • rising,
  • upraising,
  • ascension,
  • uplifting,
  • escalation,
  • exaltation.
  •heightening (noun)
  • building.

• v.

  •elevating (verb)
  • rearing,
  • exalting,
  • levitating,
  • Hoisting,
  • Lifting,
  • erecting.
  •heightening (verb)
  • Lofting.
  •increasing (verb)
  • advancing,
  • burgeoning,
  • Adding,
  • augmenting,
  • Elevating,
  • expanding,
  • raising,
  • maximizing,
  • growing,
  • Multiplying,
  • lengthening,
  • Enlarging,
  • upgrading,
  • Amplifying,
  • reinforcing,
  • fattening,
  • Extending,
  • Accruing,
  • Inflating,
  • incrementing,
  • broadening,
  • widening,
  • Boosting.
  •intensifying (verb)
  • Sharpening,
  • Magnifying,
  • deepening,
  • escalating,
  • stressing,
  • Exaggerating,
  • Accentuating,
  • underlining,
  • emphasizing.

• Other synonyms:

  •Other relevant words:
  • embitterment,
  • hold up,
  • augment,
  • contentiousness,
  • ennoblement,
  • pickup,
  • Population Explosion,
  • advantage,
  • pointing,
  • resurrecting,
  • discomfort,
  • incitement,
  • botheration,
  • enlargement,
  • leavening,
  • focusing,
  • dilation,
  • surfacing,
  • elevate,
  • hyperbole,
  • Touting,
  • condensation,
  • build up,
  • acceleration,
  • beefing up,
  • broaden,
  • Promoting,
  • conjuring,
  • elating,
  • provoking,
  • concentration,
  • extravagance,
  • increase,
  • Huckstering,
  • aspire,
  • develop,
  • enhancement,
  • Producing,
  • caricature,
  • burlesque,
  • combining,
  • accretion,
  • puffing up,
  • tightening,
  • dilatation,
  • compounding,
  • overemphasis,
  • Fanning,
  • Hyperbolism,
  • descend,
  • aggrandizement,
  • travesty,
  • push up,
  • Invoking,
  • highlighting,
  • explosion,
  • blowup,
  • Levying,
  • deepen,
  • continue,
  • parenting,
  • magnification,
  • heaving,
  • souring,
  • superlative,
  • gathering,
  • escalate,
  • straightening,
  • rebelling,
  • consolidation,
  • Originating,
  • farming,
  • inflation,
  • Enhancing,
  • Furthering,
  • accelerating,
  • irritation,
  • Arousing,
  • enhance,
  • dignifying,
  • arrive,
  • temper,
  • pull out,
  • Eliciting,
  • expand,
  • ascend,
  • blowing up,
  • developing,
  • tapering,
  • Evoking,
  • Inordinacy,
  • prodigality,
  • accrue,
  • Sublimating,
  • extreme,
  • overkill,
  • widen,
  • Aggrandizing,
  • excess,
  • overstatement,
  • expansion,
  • climb,
  • firing,
  • enter,
  • improving,
  • climb up,
  • redoubling,
  • changing,
  • turn up,
  • aggrandize,
  • dilate,
  • amplify,
  • tall talk,
  • appear,
  • deterioration,
  • soreness,
  • overestimation,
  • kindling,
  • exalt,
  • strengthening,
  • patch up,
  • reinforcement,
  • heighten,
  • come up,
  • arise,
  • emerge,
  • big talk,
  • ascending,
  • embittering,
  • proceed,
  • provocation,
  • Enkindling,
  • roll up,
  • enlarge,
  • Nurturing,
  • come out,
  • information explosion,
  • grandiloquence,
  • occur,
  • exaggeration,
  • pique,
  • sensationalism,
  • Puffery,
  • stirring,
  • uprise,
  • get,
  • lift up,
  • come,
  • Recruiting,
  • annoyance,
  • go up,
  • originate,
  • speedup,
  • accelerando,
  • exorbitance,
  • exasperation,
  • grow,
  • profuseness,
  • jump,
  • mounting,
  • mixing,
  • extend,
  • aggravating,
  • ballyhoo,
  • glorification,
  • exacerbating,
  • take off.

Paraphrases for Heightening:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    raising.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    raising, intensification, intensifying, strengthening.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    increased.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    Heightened, increased, enhance, enhanced, raise.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    fuelling, widening, escalation, deepening, escalating, rise, aggravation, improvement, boost.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    reinvigorating, Sharpening, Accentuating, sensitizing, Furthering, Enriching, aggravating, augmenting, broadening, highlighting, exacerbating, ameliorating, Bolstering, incrementing, Magnifying, Enlarging, Boosting, accelerating, escalate, maximizing, Elevating, Arousing, expanding, increments, Empowering, bringing, Canceling, Cancelling, advancing, Cementing, redoubling, Stepping, stressing, Extending, surging, Hiking, Hoisting, stripping, stoking, growing, soaring, fueling, Adding, piling, speeding, winding, Adjourning, mounting, flying, spiralling, compounding, raising, intensifying, improving, Enhancing, fuelling, strengthening, widening, escalation, deepening, escalating, improvement.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    Enhancing.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    exacerbation, enhancement, improving, Enhancing, raise, stepping-up.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    reinforcing.

Antonyms for Heightening:

• p. pr. & vb. n.

  • Other antonyms:
    moderating.