intensity
Other forms: intensities
The way he stared deep into her eyes was making her uncomfortable. For a first date, this was too much intensity. Intensity is the degree, volume, or magnitude of a thing, such as fire, emotion, weather, work, or passion.
Intensity is a word sometimes associated with passion, fire, and violence. It's used when discussing the level of such things as a love affair or, perhaps, a flame. For example, the intensity of the relationship between Bergman and Bogart in Casablanca was very high. Likewise, meteorologists measure the intensity of tornados on the Fujita Scale. Some things are meant to show intensity, such as performance by a great musician. Other things, such as, say, a blanket...not so much.
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high level or degree; the property of being intense
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synonyms:
intensiveness
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force, forcefulness, strength
physical energy or intensity
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badness, severeness, severity
used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather
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emphasis, vehemence
intensity or forcefulness of expression
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top
the greatest possible intensity
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ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, violence, wildness
the property of being wild or turbulent
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brunt
main force of a blow etc
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impulse, momentum
an impelling force or strength
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energy, vigor, vigour, zip
forceful exertion
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foulness, raininess
(of weather) the badness of the weather
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distressfulness, seriousness
the quality of arousing fear or distress
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overemphasis
too much emphasis
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savageness, savagery
the property of being untamed and ferocious
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chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence vivid in hue
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synonyms:
chroma, saturation, vividness
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type of:
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color property
an attribute of color
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color property
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the amount of energy transmitted (as by acoustic or electromagnetic radiation)“he adjusted the intensity of the sound”
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synonyms:
intensity level, strength
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radio brightness
the strength of a radio wave picked up by a radio telescope
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threshold level
the intensity level that is just barely perceptible
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field intensity, field strength
the vector sum of all the forces exerted by an electrical or magnetic field (on a unit mass or unit charge or unit magnetic pole) at a given point in the field
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candlepower, light intensity
luminous intensity measured in candelas
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acoustic power, sound pressure level
the physical intensity of sound
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half-intensity
half the maximum intensity
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magnetic field strength, magnetic flux density, magnetic induction, magnetic intensity
the amount of magnetic flux in a unit area perpendicular to the direction of magnetic flow
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type of:
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magnitude
the property of relative size or extent (whether large or small)
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the magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction)
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softness
a sound property that is free from loudness or stridency
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crescendo
(music) a gradual increase in loudness
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forte, fortissimo
(music) loud
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swell
a crescendo followed by a decrescendo
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sound property
an attribute of sound
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softness
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