Usually means: Increasing power, wealth, or status.
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  1. aggrandizement: Merriam-Webster
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  9. Aggrandizement (geometry): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  11. aggrandizement: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  14. aggrandizement: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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  18. aggrandizement: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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▸ noun:  The act of aggrandizing, or the state of being aggrandized or exalted in power, rank, honor, or wealth; exaltation; enlargement.

Similar:
elevation, aggrandisement, aggrandization, self-aggrandizement, aggrandisation, grandeur, grandness, grandioseness, exaltedness, growth, more...

Opposite:
diminution, reduction, decrease

Phrases:
self aggrandizement, more...

Adjectives:
personal, own, territorial, self, national, political, individual, selfish, further, economic, military

Colors:
    gold,     silver,     platinum,     royal blue,     ruby red, more...

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Similar:
elevation, aggrandisement, aggrandization, self-aggrandizement, aggrandisation, grandeur, grandness, grandioseness, exaltedness, growth, more...

Opposite:
diminution, reduction, decrease

Phrases:
self aggrandizement, more...

Adjectives:
personal, own, territorial, self, national, political, individual, selfish, further, economic, military

Colors:
    gold,     silver,     platinum,     royal blue,     ruby red, more...



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