| NOUN | attribute | intensity, strength, intensity level | the amount of energy transmitted (as by acoustic or electromagnetic radiation) |
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| attribute | intensity, intensiveness | high level or degree | |
| attribute | intensity, volume, loudness | the magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction) | |
| attribute | intensity, saturation, chroma, vividness | chromatic purity |
| Sounds | ihnteh'nsahtiy; ihnteh'nsihtiy | |
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| Rhymes | ability ... zloty: 638 rhymes with tiy... | |
| Meaning | The amount of energy transmitted (as by acoustic or electromagnetic radiation). | |
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| Example | "he adjusted the intensity of the sound" | |
| Synonyms | strength, intensity level | |
| Narrower | acoustic power, sound pressure level | The physical intensity of sound |
| candlepower, light intensity | luminous intensity measured in candelas | |
| field strength, field intensity | The vector sum of all the forces exerted by an electrical or magnetic field (on a unit mass or unit charge or unit magnetic pole) at a given point in the field | |
| half-intensity | half the maximum intensity | |
| radio brightness | The strength of a radio wave picked up by a radio telescope | |
| threshold level | The intensity level that is just barely perceptible | |
| Broader | magnitude | The property of relative size or extent (whether large or small) |
| Spanish | fuerza, intensidad | |
| Catalan | força, intensitat | |
| Meaning | high level or degree; the property of being intense. | |
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| Synonym | intensiveness | |
| Narrower | badness, severity, severeness | Used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather |
| ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, violence, wildness | The property of being wild or turbulent | |
| force, forcefulness, strength | Physical energy or intensity | |
| top | The greatest possible intensity | |
| vehemence, emphasis | intensity or forcefulness of expression | |
| Broader | degree, grade, level | A position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality |
| Spanish | intensidad | |
| Catalan | intensitat | |
| Adjectives | intense | possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree |
| Verbs | intensify | become more intense |
| intensify | make more intense, stronger, or more marked | |
| intensify | increase in extent or intensity | |
| Meaning | The magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction). | |
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| Synonyms | volume, loudness | |
| Attributes | loud | Characterized by or producing sound of great volume or intensity |
| soft | (of sound) relatively low in volume | |
| Narrower | crescendo | (music) a gradual increase / increase / increase / increase in loudness |
| Broader | sound property | An attribute of sound |
| Opposite | softness | A sound property that is free from loudness or stridency |
| Spanish | fuerza, intensidad, volumen | |
| Catalan | força, intensitat, volum | |
| Meaning | Chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence vivid in hue. | |
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| Synonyms | saturation, chroma, vividness | |
| Broader | color property | An attribute of color / color |
| Substance of | chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour | A color that has hue |
| Spanish | chroma, intensidad, pureza, saturación, viveza | |
| Catalan | chroma, intensitat, vivesa | |
| Adjectives | intense | (of color) having the highest saturation |
| Verbs | intensify | make the chemically affected part of (a negative) denser or more opaque in order produce a stronger contrast between light and dark |
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