Thickening

n.

1.

Something put into a liquid or mass to make it thicker.

Noun	1.	thickening - any material used to thicken; "starch is used in cooking as a thickening" Synonyms: thickener
	2.	thickening - any thickened enlargement Synonyms: node, knob
	3.	thickening - the act of thickening Synonyms: inspissation
Adj.	1.	thickening - accumulating and becoming more intense; "the deepening gloom"; "felt a deepening love"; "the gathering darkness"; "the thickening dusk" Synonyms: deepening, gathering
	2.	thickening - becoming more intricate or complex; "a thickening plot"

adhesiveness, clabbering, clamminess, clotting, coagulation, colloidality, concretion, congealment, congelation, curdling, doughiness, gelatination, gelatinity, gelatinization, gelatinousness, gelling, gluelikeness, gluiness, glutinosity, glutinousness, gumlikeness, gumminess, heaviness, incrassation, inspissation, jellification, jelling, jellying, jellylikeness, lentor, mucilaginousness, pastiness, ropiness, setting, slabbiness, sliminess, spissitude, stickiness, stodginess, stringiness, syrupiness, tackiness, tenaciousness, tenacity, thickness, toughness, treacliness, viscidity, viscosity, viscousness