Word Meanings - INTENSITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The amount or degree of energy with which a force operates or a cause acts; effectiveness, as estimated by results produced. (more info) 1. The state or quality of being intense; intenseness; extreme degree; as, intensity of heat, cold, mental

Additional info about word: INTENSITY

The amount or degree of energy with which a force operates or a cause acts; effectiveness, as estimated by results produced. (more info) 1. The state or quality of being intense; intenseness; extreme degree; as, intensity of heat, cold, mental application, passion, etc. If you would deepen the intensity of light, you must be content to bring into deeper blackness and more distinct and definite outline the shade that accompanies it. F. W. Robertson.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INTENSITY)

• Heat
• Warmth
• ardor
• passion
• excitement
• fever
• ebullition
• intensity
• Ardor
• glow
• fervor
• zeal
• heat
• earnestness
• cordiality
• animation
• eagerness
• vehemence
• geniality
• sincerity
• irascibility
• emotion
• life

Related words: (words related to INTENSITY)

• WARMTH
  The glowing effect which arises from the use of warm colors; hence, any similar appearance or effect in a painting, or work of color. Syn. -- Zeal; ardor; fervor; fervency; heat; glow; earnestness; cordiality; animation; eagerness; excitement;
• FEVER
  A diseased state of the system, marked by increased heat, acceleration of the pulse, and a general derangement of the functions, including usually, thirst and loss of appetite. Many diseases, of which fever is the most prominent symptom,
• PASSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to passion or the passions; exciting, influenced by, or ministering to, the passions. -- n.
• GENIALITY
  The quality of being genial; sympathetic cheerfulness; warmth of disposition and manners.
• FEVERFEW
  A perennial plant allied to camomile, having finely divided leaves and white blossoms; -- so named from its supposed febrifugal qualities.
• INTENSITY
  The amount or degree of energy with which a force operates or a cause acts; effectiveness, as estimated by results produced. (more info) 1. The state or quality of being intense; intenseness; extreme degree; as, intensity of heat, cold, mental
• FEVERISH
  1. Having a fever; suffering from, or affected with, a moderate degree of fever; showing increased heat and thirst; as, the patient is feverish. 2. Indicating, or pertaining to, fever; characteristic of a fever; as, feverish symptoms.
• FEVERET
  A slight fever. Ayliffe.
• ANIMATION
  1. The act of animating, or giving life or spirit; the state of being animate or alive. The animation of the same soul quickening the whole frame. Bp. Hall. Perhaps an inanimate thing supplies me, while I am speaking, with whatever I posses of
• PASSIONLESS
  Void of passion; without anger or emotion; not easily excited; calm. "Self-contained and passionless." Tennyson.
• FERVOR
  1. Heat; excessive warmth. The fevor of ensuing day. Waller. 2. Intensity of feeling or expression; glowing ardor; passion; holy zeal; earnestness. Hooker. Winged with fervor of her love. Shak. Syn. -- Fervor, Ardor. Fervor is a boiling heat, and
• SINCERITY
  The quality or state of being sincere; honesty of mind or intention; freedom from simulation, hypocrisy, disguise, or false pretense; sincereness. I protest, in the sincerity of love. Shak. Sincerity is a duty no less plain than important. Knox.
• WARMTHLESS
  Being without warmth; not communicating warmth; cold. Coleridge.
• FEVERY
  Feverish. B. Jonson.
• FEVEROUS
  1. Affected with fever or ague; feverish. His heart, love's feverous citadel. Keats. 2. Pertaining to, or having the nature of, fever; as, a feverous pulse. All maladies . . . all feverous kinds. Milton. 3. Having the tendency to produce fever;
• EMOTIONALIZE
  To give an emotional character to. Brought up in a pious family where religion was not talked about emotionalized, but was accepted as the rule of thought and conduct. Froude.
• IRASCIBILITY
  The quality or state of being irascible; irritability of temper; irascibleness.
• EMOTIONALISM
  The cultivation of an emotional state of mind; tendency to regard things in an emotional manner.
• FEVERWORT
  See FEVER
• EMOTIONED
  Affected with emotion. "The emotioned soul." Sir W. Scott.
• COMPASSIONATELY
  In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
• REBULLITION
  The act of boiling up or effervescing. Sir H. Wotton.
• SHODDY FEVER
  A febrile disease characterized by dyspnoa and bronchitis caused by inhaling dust.
• INANIMATION
  Want of animation; lifeless; dullness.
• OUTPASSION
  To exceed in passion.
• INCOMPASSIONATE
  Not compassionate; void of pity or of tenderness; remorseless. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ness, n.
• MEAGERNESS; MEAGRENESS
  The state or quality of being meager; leanness; scantiness; barrenness.
• REANIMATION
  The act or operation of reanimating, or the state of being reanimated; reinvigoration; revival.
• IMPASSIONABLE
  Excitable; susceptible of strong emotion.
• BUCK FEVER
  Intense excitement at the sight of deer or other game, such as often unnerves a novice in hunting.
• INSINCERITY
  The quality of being insincere; want of sincerity, or of being in reality what one appears to be; dissimulation; hypocritical; deceitfulness; hollowness; untrustworthiness; as, the insincerity of a professed friend; the insincerity of professions
• IMPASSIONATE
  Strongly affected. Smart.
• ENFEVER
  To excite fever in. A. Seward.