Usually means: Increased or intensified to higher level.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word heightened:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. heightened: Merriam-Webster
  2. heightened: Collins English Dictionary
  3. heightened: Vocabulary.com
  4. Heightened, heightened: Wordnik
  5. heightened: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. heightened: Wiktionary
  7. Heightened, heightened: Dictionary.com
  8. heightened: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Heightened: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Heightened: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. heightened: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. heightened: FreeDictionary.org
  13. heightened: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. heightened: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (heightened)

▸ adjective:  Increased in intensity or concentration; elevated.

Similar:
raise, rise, enhance, intensify, deepen, sharpen, compound, stepped-up, elevated, augmented, more...

Opposite:
lowered, reduced, decreased, diminished, lessened

Types:
heightened anxiety, heightened emotion, heightened arousal, more...

Phrases:
heightened senses, heightened sense, heightened awareness, heightened stress, period of heightened anxiety, more...

Colors:
    electric blue,     neon green,     bright yellow,     vivid orange,     intense purple, more...



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Similar:
raise, rise, enhance, intensify, deepen, sharpen, compound, stepped-up, elevated, augmented, more...

Opposite:
lowered, reduced, decreased, diminished, lessened

Types:
heightened anxiety, heightened emotion, heightened arousal, more...

Phrases:
heightened senses, heightened sense, heightened awareness, heightened stress, period of heightened anxiety, heightened sensitivity, opposite of heightened, most heightened, heightened calm, more...

Colors:
    electric blue,     neon green,     bright yellow,     vivid orange,     intense purple, more...



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