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Definition of Intensity

Intensity The state or quality of being intense; intenseness; extreme degree; as, intensity of heat, cold, mental application, passion, etc. The amount or degree of energy with which a force operates or a cause acts; effectiveness, as estimated by results produced. The magnitude of a distributed force, as pressure, stress, weight, etc., per unit of surface, or of volume, as the case may be; as, the measure of the intensity of a total stress of forty pounds which is distributed uniformly over a surface of four square inches area is ten pounds per square inch. The degree or depth of shade in a picture. Related Definitions: Amount, Application, Area, As, Be, Being, By, Case, Cause, Cold, Degree, Depth, Distributed, Effectiveness, Energy, Estimated, Extreme, Force, Forty, Four, Heat, In, Inch, Intense, Intenseness, Intensity, Is, Magnitude, May, Measure, Mental, Of, Or, Over, Passion, Per, Picture, Pounds, Pressure, Produced, Quality, Shade, Square, State, Stress, Surface, Ten, The, Total, Uniformly, Unit, Volume, Weight, Which, With

Intensity Quotations The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity. William Butler Yeats When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself. Bertrand Russell From beginning to end it's about keeping the energy and the intensity of the story and not doing too much and not doing too little, but just enough so people stay interested and stay involved in the characters. Deborah Cox In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it. Nathaniel Hawthorne Intensity is so much more becoming in the young. Joanne Woodward

Intensity Translations intensity in Norwegian is intensitet, styrke intensity in Spanish is intensidad intensity in Swedish is intensitet

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