auxesis

noun5

1. •
   Biological growth, (now usually restricted to) expansion or growth of an organism apart from that due to cellular division.

   • Auxesis, augmentation, increase. — 1842
2. •
   (rhetoric) A rhetorical device whereby the subject matter is made greater.
3. •
   (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
4. •
   The condition of being auxetic
5. •
   (rhetoric, no longer used) Arrangement of a series in ascending order.