Synonyms for intensity
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : in-ten-si-tee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ɪnˈtɛn sɪ ti |
Top 10 synonyms for intensity Other synonyms for the word intensity
- acuteness
- ardor
- deepness
- emphasis
- excess
- extreme
- extremity
- fanaticism
- ferment
- ferociousness
- fervency
- fierceness
- fire
- force
- forcefulness
- high pitch
- intenseness
- keenness
- magnitude
- might
- nervousness
- potency
- power
- severity
- sharpness
- strain
- strength
- tenseness
- tension
- vehemence
- vigor
- violence
- volume
- weightiness
- wildness
Définition of intensity
Origin :- formed in English 1660s from intense + -ity. Earlier was intenseness (1610s). Sense of "extreme depth of feeling" first recorded 1830.
- noun passion, force
- He wanted Avice Milbrey,—wanted her with an intensity as unreasoning as it was resistless.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- She spoke softly, but with an intensity of supreme feeling in her voice.
- Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana
- Yet, in the intensity of her utterance, the feeble whisper struck like a shriek of horror.
- Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana
- It is all Hamlet over again, Hamlet wrought up to a higher pitch of intensity.
- Extract from : « The Man Shakespeare » by Frank Harris
- No one ever felt this intensity of jealous rage about a mother or a sister.
- Extract from : « The Man Shakespeare » by Frank Harris
- It is national in the broadest sense of the term, and primative and forcible to intensity.
- Extract from : « Ridgeway » by Scian Dubh
- In her intensity of grief her thoughts became audible in expressed words.
- Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser
- Does the intensity of our love equal the clearness of our discoveries?
- Extract from : « Female Scripture Biographies, Vol. I » by Francis Augustus Cox
- They have not been fused in the rapture of some unique mood, not focussed by the intensity of an emotion.
- Extract from : « Albert Durer » by T. Sturge Moore
- But at last, caught up in its intensity, she gave him back his kisses.
- Extract from : « The Inn at the Red Oak » by Latta Griswold
Antonyms for intensity
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