different between enlargement vs widening

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): /?wa?d?n??/

Adjective

widening (not comparable)

1. Growing wider or farther apart.
   • 1920 — William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming

Noun

widening (plural widenings)

1. The action of the verb widen.
   • 1887 — Robert Louis Stevenson, The Merry Men, Olalla

Translations

Verb

widening

1. present participle of widen

Anagrams

• indewing