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intenseness|ɪnˈtɛnsnɪs|
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality of being intense.
1. Very high or great degree; violence, intensity.
a1614Donne βιαθανατος (1644) 60 Though it merited not salvation, yet it diminished the intensnesse of Damnation. 1677Gale Crt. Gentiles iv. 39 The vehemence and intensenesse of any pleasure is proportionable to the energie, power and activitie of the subject which is affected with such pleasure. 1768Barrington in Phil. Trans. LVIII. 60 The intenseness of the cold, which he..experienced. 1829I. Taylor Enthus. viii. 189 Proofs of the energy, purity and intenseness of practical Christianity among a large number of those who made profession of the name.
2. Strained quality, strenuousness of action or thought. (In later use not distinguished from 1.)
1642T. Goodwin Heart of Christ in Heaven 16 The Hebrew phrase likewise signifies an urgencie, vehemencie, and intensenesse of some act. a1665J. Goodwin Filled w. the Spirit (1867) 229 They do not frequently, and with intenseness of mind, consider the abundance of evil that is in it. 1727Swift Art Polit. Lying Wks. 1755 III. i. 122 Too great a zeal and intenseness in the practice of this art. 1779–81Johnson L.P., Cowley Wks. II. 7 Cambridge, where he continued his studies with great intenseness. 1819J. H. Wiffen Aonian Hours (1820) 22 With a more melancholy tenderness, And more subdued intenseness, I would scan All scene. |