enlargement

noun enlargements · inlargement

1. countable, uncountable An act or instance of making something larger. Rick was ashamed about the size of his penis, so he had a penis enlargement.
2. countable, figuratively, uncountable A making more obvious or serious; exacerbation. Bathsheba underwent the enlargement of her husband's absence from hours to days with a slight feeling of surprise, and a slight feeling of relief; yet neither sensation rose at any time far above the level commonly designated as indifference.
3. countable, uncountable An image, particularly a photograph, that has been enlarged.
4. countable, obsolete, uncountable Freedom from confinement; liberty. Go, tenderness of years; take this key, give enlargement to the swain, bring him festinately hither.
5. countable, uncountable Diffuseness of speech or writing; a speaking at length. Briefly, a discourse generally consists in some prefatory remarks which pave the way as it were for the enlargement upon which a speaker usually enters when he speaks to any purpose.