leavening

Plural: leavenings

Noun

• an influence that works subtly to lighten or modify something
  • "his sermons benefited from a leavening of humor"
• a substance used to produce fermentation in dough or a liquid
• The process by which something is leavened.
• Synonym of leavening agent.

Verb

• cause to puff up with a leaven
• present participle and gerund of leaven

Adj

• Making light by aeration.

Synonyms

leaven, prove, raise, leavening agent

Related Words

leaven, unleavened

Anagrams of leavening