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auxesis

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From Ancient Greek αὔξησις (aúxēsis, “growth”), from αὐξάνω (auxánō, “to grow”).

noun auxeses

countable, rhetoric, uncountable Overstatement, hyperbole. Avxesis, when we vse a greater word for a lesse, or thus, when the word is greater then the thing is in deede.
Opposite: meiosis
countable, obsolete, rhetoric, uncountable Arrangement of a series in ascending order.
Similar: climax
countable, uncountable Biological growth, (now usually restricted to) expansion or growth of an organism apart from that due to cellular division. Auxesis, augmentation, increase.
countable, uncountable The condition of being auxetic

Similar: amplification, amplificatio, spin, hyperbole · Opposite: antonym(s) of, catacosmesis, merisis

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Similar: amplification, amplificatio, spin, hyperbole · Opposite: antonym(s) of, catacosmesis, merisis

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@misc{auxesis_2026,
  title = {auxesis},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/auxesis},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}