accumulate
verb (used with object)
to gather or collect, often in gradual degrees; heap up.
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Why should it be strange if their minds were alike too? if they had a natural bent toward accumulativeness, and a natural desire to try new wrinkles?
From The Woodpeckers by Fannie Hardy Eckstorm