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intensification

intensification

5 5.5
Making something stronger or more intense
  • noun
  • /ɪnˌtɛnsɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
translation icon : intensificación
  • The intensification of the storm caused widespread flooding in the coastal areas.
  • intensification of conflict
  • intensification of agriculture
  • intensification process

So all of these are factors that can lead to an intensification of anger on the part of the person who is in fact feeling that emotion.

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Examples

  • During this period, the expansion and intensification of agriculture in the periphery can result in shorter harvesting periods.

    Academic text (1999)

  • The continuing French presence and its recent intensification in this community stimulate a schismogenesis of ethnic identity.

    Academic text (1994)

  • The result was not the birth of a market economy but rather an intensification of financial instability.

    Academic text (1990)

  • The model of further involvement is related to the continuity and intensification of involvement.

    Academic text (1991)

  • 1990 saw a significant intensification of the historical and communicative dimensions of Carnival.

    Academic text (1995)

  • The proliferation of borders in our times seems to me to talk about the intensification of a kind of barbarity.

  • Most particularly, as Ingrid Creppell has argued, what had to happen was an intensification of the powers of sovereignty.

    Academic text (1999)

  • A 1991 Overseas Development Institute study argued that this kind of intensification had helped reverse land degradation problems in Machakos.

    Academic text (1994)

  • At its initiation, PROMECAFE promoted the intensification of coffee along the lines established by USAID and its consultants.

    Academic text (1999)

  • During the test, the teacher noted an intensification of the students' focus on the subject matter.

Synonyms

escalation
vsintensification
65 5.7

A rise in how serious or costly a situation becomes

focuses on increasing strength rather than responding to a prior situation
step-up
vsintensification
20 3.6

An increase in amount, level, or strength

describes the act of making something stronger rather than just the result
augmentation
vsintensification
13 6.1

An increase in size, amount, or level

concerns increasing strength or intensity rather than size or amount
exacerbation
vsintensification
2 8.6

A worsening of a problem, conflict, or health symptoms, for example more pain

involves increasing strength without implying harm or worsening
heightening
vsintensification
1 4.6

An increase in how strong or serious something becomes

is the same concept but used as a general action term

Antonyms

diminution
5 7.9

A decrease in size, amount, or importance

How Intense

escalation
65 5.7
intensification
5 5.5
heightening
1 4.6

Surface Forms

intensification singular
intensifications plural

Morphology

intensification = intensify (transparent) = intense + ify + ation

Regular nominalization of the verb 'intensify' with '-ation'; the meaning (action/process of making more intense) is directly derived.

Etymology

Intensification comes from the word intense, which combines in- ('into') and a root that means 'to stretch', the same idea you see in tension. So to intensify is to make something tighter or stronger, and intensification is the action of making something more strong or more extreme.