intensiveness

Variant of intensive

adjective

  1. increasing or causing to increase in degree or amount
  2. of or characterized by intensity; thorough, profound, and intense; concentrated or exhaustive
  3. designating care of an especially attentive nature given to critically ill hospital patients, typically in a special ward ()
  4. Agric. designating a system of farming which aims at the increase of yield per acre by using increased labor, capital, etc.
  5. Gram. giving force or emphasis; emphasizing: “very” in “the very same man” is an intensive adverb

Origin: ML intensious < L intensus: see intense & -ive

noun

  1. anything that intensifies
  2. an intensive word, prefix, etc.

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