According to Guinness World Records, the largest collection of coffee pots belongs to Robert Dahl (Germany) and consists of 27,390 coffee pots as of 2 November 2012, in Rövershagen, Germany.
AUGMENTATIVE
augmentative, enhancive
(adjective) intensifying by augmentation and enhancement
augmentative
(adjective) increasing or having the power to increase especially in size or amount or degree; “‘up’ is an augmentative word in ‘hurry up’”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
augmentative (not comparable)
Growing, enlarging, increasing.
Noun
augmentative (plural augmentatives)
(grammar) A form of word that expresses large size, intensity, or seniority
Antonyms
• diminutive
Source: Wiktionary
Aug*ment"a*tive, a. Etym: [Cf. F. augmentatif.]
Definition: Having the quality or power of augmenting; expressing augmentation.
– Aug*ment"a*tive*ly, adv.
Aug*ment"a*tive, n. (Gram.)
Definition: A word which expresses with augmented force the idea or the properties of the term from which it is derived; as, dullard, one very dull. Opposed to diminutive. Gibbs.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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INTERSPERSION
(noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things; “the interspersion of illustrations in the text”
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