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Pronunciation: [ɪntˌɛnsɪfɪkˈe͡ɪʃən] (IPA)

Intensification refers to the action of intensifying or making something more intense. However, there are other words that convey a similar meaning, such as escalation, exacerbation, consolidation, amplification, augmentation, and invigoration. These words imply an increase or a strengthening of something, whether it's emotions, attitudes, or physical properties. Escalation implies the elevation of tension or conflict, exacerbation suggests the aggravation of an existing condition, while consolidation refers to the bringing together of separate elements to create a unified whole. Amplification denotes the amplification of sound or amplification of effect, augmentation suggests enlargement or expansion, whereas invigoration implies revitalization and renewal. All of these words have their slight nuances, but share in conveying the idea of intensification in some form.

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What are the opposite words for intensification?

The word 'intensification' means the process of becoming stronger or more forceful. Its antonyms are the words that denote the opposite - weak, decrease, lighten, mitigate, reduce, slacken, soften, and ease. 'Weak' means having less power or strength, while 'decrease' implies a reduction in intensity or pressure. 'Lighten' connotes making something less heavy, and 'mitigate' signifies lessening the severity or intensity of something. 'Reduce' means to reduce something in size or amount, while 'slacken' denotes a decrease or slowing down of something. 'Soften' means to make something less harsh or sharp, and 'ease' implies the removal of tension or difficulty. Overall, these antonyms are useful for conveying a sense of reduction, weakening or easing of intensity.

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Usage examples for Intensification

In saying that men think only now and then nothing more is necessarily implied than that men are for the most part sluggish and indifferent, and the periods of high intensification of the normal processes contrast sharply with the habitual lethargy of conduct.
"John Dewey's logical theory"
Delton Thomas Howard
The question to be faced, of course, is whether the processes of thought differ radically from the non-reflective processes in kind, or whether they are simply the intensification of processes which attend all conscious life.
"John Dewey's logical theory"
Delton Thomas Howard
In the latter sense, thought involves an intensification of the powers of observation, an awakening of memory, a general stimulation of all the faculties.
"John Dewey's logical theory"
Delton Thomas Howard

Famous quotes with Intensification

  • When shopping was still connected to the street it was also an intensification and articulation of the street. Now it has become utterly independent - contained, controlled, surveyed.
    Rem Koolhaas
  • The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the swift and uninterrupted change of outer and inner stimuli.
    Georg Simmel
  • We must never forget, that under modern conditions of life, science, and technology. All war has been greatly brutalized, and that no one who joins in it, even in self-defense, can escape becoming also in a measure brutalized. Modern war cannot be limited in its destructive method and the inevitable debasement of all participants… A fair scrutiny of the last two World Wars makes clear the steady intensification of the weapons and methods employed by both, the aggressors and the victors. In order to defeat the Japanese aggression, we were forced, as Admiral Nimitz has stated, to employ a technique of unrestricted warfare, not unlike that which 25 years ago was the proximate cause of our entry into World War I. In the use of strategic air power the Allies took the lives of hundreds of thousands of civilians in Germany and Japan…. We as well as our enemies have contributed to the proof that the central moral problem is war and not its methods, and that a continuance of war will in all probability end with the destruction of our civilization.
    Henry Stimson
  • Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape into an intensification of the conditions of ordinary life, into a deliberate aggravation of those conditions: further from nature, nearer to artifice, to abstraction, to total pollution, to well above average levels of stress, pressure, concentration and monotony -- this is the ideal of popular entertainment. No one is interested in overcoming alienation; the point is to plunge into it to the point of ecstasy. That is what holidays are for.
    Jean Baudrillard
  • Let us assume that our problem is the intensification in the public mind of the prestige of a hotel. The problem for the public relations counsel is to create in the public mind the close relationship between the hotel and a number of ideas that represent the things the hotel desires to stand for in the public mind.
    Edward Bernays

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