Word: brightening
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: brigh
te
ning
Definition: An instance of becoming brighter.
Morphemes:
Affix: bright
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: Brightness, glow.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: brighte
Language: enm
Decoded: brighte
Meaning: brightly; brilliantly, lustrously; of colour: boldly, vividly; clearly, distinctly; of voice: loudly
Affix: -en
Language: en
Meaning: inchoative
Affix: -ing
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form gerunds, a type of verbal nouns, from verbs.