Definitions for intensity

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intensity in·ten·si·ty

Spelling: [in-ten-si-tee]

IPA: /ɪnˈtɛn sɪ ti/

Intensity is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 146 anagrams from letters in intensity (eiinnstty).

Definitions for intensity

noun

1. the quality or condition of being intense.
2. great energy, strength, concentration, vehemence, etc., as of activity, thought, or feeling:
3. a high or extreme degree, as of cold or heat.
4. the degree or extent to which something is intense.
5. a high degree of emotional excitement; depth of feeling:
6. the strength or sharpness of a color due especially to its degree of freedom from admixture with its complementary color.
7. Physics. magnitude, as of energy or a force per unit of area, volume, time, etc.
8. Speech. the correlate of physical energy and the degree of loudness of a speech sound. the relative carrying power of vocal utterance.

Origin of intensity

First recorded in 1655-65; intense + -ity

Examples for intensity

No one ever felt this intensity of jealous rage about a mother or a sister.

She spoke softly, but with an intensity of supreme feeling in her voice.

He was just seamlessly being this person—the ferocity and intensity was incredible.

It is all Hamlet over again, Hamlet wrought up to a higher pitch of intensity.

Yet, in the intensity of her utterance, the feeble whisper struck like a shriek of horror.

The intensity of the airstrikes needs to reflect that urgency.

He wanted Avice Milbrey,—wanted her with an intensity as unreasoning as it was resistless.

Amina Alzouma (“Young Girl”) surprised us all with her disturbingly beautiful displays of vulnerability and intensity.

“You are bringing someone into an atmosphere of intensity, and adding a lot of pressure to a first-time meeting,” says Berman.

The story is simple and one that belies the intensity of the conflict.