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INTENSIVENESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
High level or degree; the property of being intense
Synonyms:
intensity; intensiveness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("intensiveness" is a kind of...):
degree; grade; level (a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "intensiveness"):
force; forcefulness; strength (physical energy or intensity)
badness; severeness; severity (used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather)
emphasis; vehemence (intensity or forcefulness of expression)
top (the greatest possible intensity)
ferocity; fierceness; furiousness; fury; vehemence; violence; wildness (the property of being wild or turbulent)
Derivation:
intensive (characterized by a high degree or intensity; often used as a combining form)
intensive (of agriculture; intended to increase productivity of a fixed area by expending more capital and labor)
