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Increasing vs Heightening - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between increasing and heightening

is that increasing is present participle of lang=en while heightening is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between increasing and heightening

is that increasing is an increase while heightening is the act by which something is heightened or increased.

increasing

English

Verb

(head)
  • * , chapter=5
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Joseph Stiglitz)
    • , volume=188, issue=26, page=19, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Globalisation is about taxes too , passage=It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today […].}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (knitting) An increase.
  • * 1864 , The Ladies' Companion and Monthly Magazine (page 277)
    • Now begin the increasings for the chest by making 2 stitches in the fourth stitch; repeat this, increasing in every fourth row, but 1 stitch further each time, so as to form a slanting line, the same as a dress-pleat.

    heightening

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • 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.