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auxeses

auxeses is the plural of auxesis.

Meaning of auxesis

Noun

auxesis (countable and uncountable, plural auxeses)

  1. (rhetoric) 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.1577, Henry Peacham, Garden of Eloquence
    Antonyms:
    meiosis
  2. (obsolete, rhetoric) Arrangement of a series in ascending order.
    Synonyms:
    climax
  3. Biological growth, (now usually restricted to) expansion or growth of an organism apart from that due to cellular division.
    • Auxesis, augmentation, increase.1842, R. Dunglison, Medical Lexicon
  4. The condition of being auxetic

Questions about auxeses

What is auxeses the plural of?
Auxeses is the plural of auxesis.

Words near auxeses in the dictionary

  1. auxanology
  2. auxanometer
  3. auxanometers
  4. Auxerre
  5. auxes
  6. auxeses
  7. auxesis
  8. auxetic
  9. auxetically
  10. auxeticity
  11. auxetics

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