different between enlargement vs increasing

English

Etymology

enlarge +? -ment

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?l??(?)d??m?nt/

Noun

enlargement (countable and uncountable, plural enlargements)

1. An act or instance of making something larger.

2. (figuratively) A making more obvious or serious; exacerbation.
   • 1874, Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd, 2005 Barnes & Noble Classics publication of 1912 Wessex edition, p.337

     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. An image, particularly a photograph, that has been enlarged.
4. (obsolete) Freedom from confinement; liberty.
5. Diffuseness of speech or writing; a speaking at length.
   • 1897, Peter Joseph Cooke, Forensic Eloquence (page 40)

     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.

Translations

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?k?i?s??/
• Hyphenation: in?creas?ing
• Rhymes: -i?s??

Etymology 1

From increase +? -ing.

Adjective

increasing (not comparable)

1. on the increase.

   steadily increasing demand

Antonyms

• decreasing

Hyponyms

• ever-increasing

Translations

Verb

increasing

1. present participle of increase

Etymology 2

From Middle English encresing, equivalent to increase +? -ing.

Noun

increasing (plural increasings)

1. (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.