INTENSIVENESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)