英语词汇“intensity”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	intensity
释义	in·ten·si·ty \ə̇n.ˈten(t)səd.ē, -ətē, -i\ noun (-es) Etymology: intense + -ity 1. : the quality or state of being intense: as a. : extreme or very high degree : extreme strength, force, or energy < the intensity of the sun's rays > < the intensity and accuracy of this fire — S.L.A.Marshall > < strikingly signalizes the intensity of the hope — Bernard De Voto > < rains of unparalleled intensity — W.E.Swinton > b. : extreme depth of feeling : passionate quality : extreme sensibility < her intensity, which would leave no emotion on a normal plane — D.H.Lawrence > < the most striking feature … is the intensity of his nature — R.A.Hall b.1911 > < instinctively kept to intensity, knowing that without passion no art can live — Louise Bogan > c. : the quality of aesthetic or intellectual emotion or excitement : compactness of artistic statement or expression : artistic tension < lacks the intensity and the profundity that the greatest poetry has — R.A.Hall b.1911 > < with intensity the poem may survive anything — even archaic language — J.P.Bishop > < compressed into poetic intensity … instead of sprawling forth sloppy, formless, and diffuse — Peter Viereck > < a painting of dramatic intensity > < impress their poetry with density and intensity, cutting out irrelevancies and long-windedness — Mary M.Colum > d. : depth of conviction < his voice was hoarse with the intensity of his belief — Irwin Shaw > e. : strenuousness of effort or application : energy < the campaign was waged with great intensity by both parties > 2. : the degree or amount of a quality or condition: as a. : the relative loudness or softness of a tone or a tonal effect b. : the energy with which air is propelled through the vocal tract in articulating : loudness c. : a specified measure of the effect of certain physical agencies expressed as the magnitude of force or energy per unit (as of surface, charge, or mass) — see electric intensity, gravitational intensity, luminous intensity, magnetic intensity, radiant intensity, sound intensity; compare luminous-flux density, radiant-flux density d. : saturation 4a e. : a measure of the magnitude of an earthquake f. : intensive quality : intensiveness < carried on agriculture with varying degrees of intensity — A.C.Parker > g. : the vivacity or strength of a sensation < his shame reached a high degree of intensity > h. : cultural vigor especially of a primitive people as expressed in quantity of cultural content and complexity and interrelations of cultural patterns < a contrast in the … intensity of cultural systems — E.H.Spicer > 3. : an instance of intense quality, condition, or experience < the intensities, the moments of feeling and depths of experience that constitute the fundamental part of living — Leon Edel >
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