auxesis
nounEtymology
From Ancient Greek αὔξησις (aúxēsis, “growth”), from αὐξάνω (auxánō, “to grow”).
Definitions
A rhetorical device whereby the subject matter is made greater, particularly
- Avxesis, when we vse a greater word for a lesse, or thus, when the word is greater then the thing is in deede.
Biological growth, (now usually restricted to) expansion or growth of an organism apart…
Biological growth, (now usually restricted to) expansion or growth of an organism apart from that due to cellular division.
- Auxesis, augmentation, increase.
- Botanists do still distinguish between auxesis or growth by expansion, and merisis or growth by cell-multiplication.
The condition of being auxetic
The neighborhood
- synonymamplificationrhetorical increase
- synonymamplificatiorhetorical increase
- synonymspinrhetorical increase; good
- synonymhyperbole
- antonymantonym(s) ofSee understatement
- antonymcatacosmesisantonym(s) of “ascending series”
- antonymmerisisantonym(s) of “biological”
- neighbortachyauxesis
- neighborheterauxesis
- neighborpleonasm
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for auxesis. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA