Antonyms for intensity


Grammar : Noun
Spell : in-ten-si-tee
Phonetic Transcription : ɪnˈtɛn sɪ ti


Definition of intensity

Origin :
  • formed in English 1660s from intense + -ity. Earlier was intenseness (1610s). Sense of "extreme depth of feeling" first recorded 1830.
  • noun passion, force
Example sentences :
  • He wanted Avice Milbrey,—wanted her with an intensity as unreasoning as it was resistless.
  • Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • She spoke softly, but with an intensity of supreme feeling in her voice.
  • Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana
  • Yet, in the intensity of her utterance, the feeble whisper struck like a shriek of horror.
  • Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana
  • It is all Hamlet over again, Hamlet wrought up to a higher pitch of intensity.
  • Extract from : « The Man Shakespeare » by Frank Harris
  • No one ever felt this intensity of jealous rage about a mother or a sister.
  • Extract from : « The Man Shakespeare » by Frank Harris
  • It is national in the broadest sense of the term, and primative and forcible to intensity.
  • Extract from : « Ridgeway » by Scian Dubh
  • In her intensity of grief her thoughts became audible in expressed words.
  • Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser
  • Does the intensity of our love equal the clearness of our discoveries?
  • Extract from : « Female Scripture Biographies, Vol. I » by Francis Augustus Cox
  • They have not been fused in the rapture of some unique mood, not focussed by the intensity of an emotion.
  • Extract from : « Albert Durer » by T. Sturge Moore
  • But at last, caught up in its intensity, she gave him back his kisses.
  • Extract from : « The Inn at the Red Oak » by Latta Griswold

Synonyms for intensity

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