Noun

(en noun)

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.

Noun

The distance from the base of something to the top.

* Robert Frost

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

* , chapter=5

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.}}

The vertical distance from the ground to the highest part of a standing person or animal (withers in the case of a horse).

The highest point or maximum degree.

* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 29, author=Neil Johnston, title=Norwich 3 - 3 Blackburn

, work=BBC Sport citation , passage=If City never quite reached the heights of their 6-1 demolition of United, then Roberto Mancini's side should still have had this game safe long before Johnson restored their two-goal advantage.}}

(Sussex) An area of land at the top of a cliff.