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Another word for intensity

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Noun

  1. Exceptionally great concentration, power, or force, especially in activity

    See also:

    big

    strong

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Another word for intensity

Noun

  1. A high degree of anything

      1. (Taxonomy, Genetics) A line of individuals of a certain species or race, differentiated from the main group by certain qualities, often, specif., superior qualities resulting from artificial breeding
      2. Stress or force
      3. Change in form or size, or both, resulting from stress or force
      1. The power to control, persuade, influence, etc.; effectiveness
      2. The capacity to do work or cause physical change; energy, strength, or active power:
      3. Strength; energy; vigor; power
      1. The act or process of concentrating, especially the fixing of close, undivided attention.
      2. The act, process or product of reducing the volume of a liquid, as by evaporation.
      3. The act or process of removing the dress of ore and of reducing the valuable part to smaller compass, as by currents of air or water.
      1. The ability or capacity to act or do something effectively:
      2. A source of physical or mechanical force or energy; force or energy that is at, or can be put to, work
      3. Physical strength or force exerted or capable of being exerted:
      1. Those resources, as petroleum, coal, gas, wind, nuclear fuel, and sunlight, from which energy in the form of electricity, heat, etc. can be produced
      2. Such forces or power, esp. in action
      3. Strength or power efficiently exerted
      1. Behavior or treatment in which physical force is exerted for the purpose of causing damage or injury:
      2. Unjust or callous use of force or power, as in violating another's rights, sensibilities, etc.
      3. Intense, often devastatingly or explosively powerful force or energy, as of a hurricane or volcano
      1. The state or quality of being ferocious
      1. Violence; vehemence; fierceness
      2. Violent or frenzied action:
      3. A violent disturbance or intense period of activity:
      1. Great warmth and intensity of emotion.
      2. Intense heat
      1. (Slang) Adverse comments or hostile criticism:
      2. The sensation or perception of such energy as warmth or hotness.
      3. The quality of being hot; hotness: in physics, heat is considered a form of energy existing as the result of the random motion of molecules and is the form of energy that is transferred between bodies as a result of their temperature difference
      1. Excitement or vigor of feeling; enthusiasm, ardor, zeal, etc.
      2. The state or quality of having, giving off, or keeping in a moderate degree of heat
      3. The degree of heat in a substance, esp. when it is moderate; mild heat
      1. An agent, such as an enzyme, bacterium, or fungus, that brings about fermentation.
      2. A substance or organism causing fermentation, as yeast, bacteria, enzymes, etc.
      3. A state of agitation or of turbulent change or development.
      1. A body limb
      2. An extreme or severe measure:
      3. An extreme measure; severe or strong action
      1. The state or quality of being severe.
      2. Rigid accuracy
      3. The act or an instance of severe behavior, especially punishment.
      1. Strength held in reserve, especially a supply of skilled or capable replacements:
      2. The most profound or intense part or stage:
      3. Reserve strength, as of suitable substitute players for a team
      1. The state or quality of being deep (either physically or metaphorically)
      1. The characteristic or quality of being forceful
      1. (Of an image) distinctness, focus
      2. (Uncountable) the cutting ability of an edge; keenness
      3. (Countable) The product or result of being sharp.
      1. Prominence given to a syllable, word, or words, as by raising the voice or printing in italic type.
      2. Special forcefulness of expression that gives importance to something singled out; stress:
      3. Force of expression, thought, feeling, action, etc.
      1. A property that can be described by a real number, such as the volume of a sphere or the length of a vector.
      2. Greatness in significance or influence:
      3. (Geol.) A measure of the amount of energy released by an earthquake
      1. The state or quality of being strong; physical power or capacity:
      2. Effective or binding force; efficacy:
      3. The power to resist strain, stress, etc.; toughness; durability
      1. Active physical or mental force or strength; vitality
      2. Physical or mental strength, energy, or force:
      3. Intensity, force, or energy
    See also:

    force

  2. Depth of feeling

    See also:

    emotion

    enthusiasm

    excitement

    nervousness

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Sentence Examples

  • It was difficult to see as the intensity of the falling snow was increasing by the hour.

  • From the very beginning there had been an intensity, a seriousness to the falling flakes that spoke of accumulations far in excess of anything the Deans had seen to date.

  • Elisabeth must have noticed his intensity of thought.

  • The number of thunderstorm days is probably a less exact measure of the relative intensity of thunderstorms than statistics as to the number of persons killed annually by lightning per million of the population.

  • His gaze was trained on her with an intensity that made her body warm from the inside out.

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