The way he stared deep into her eyes was making her uncomfortable. For a first date, this was too much intensity. Intensity is the degree, volume, or magnitude of a thing, such as fire, emotion, weather, work, or passion.
The state or quality of being intense; intenseness; extreme degree;
Noun
chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence vividness of hue
Noun
the magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction); "the kids played their music at full volume"
Noun
high level or degree; the property of being intense
Noun
the amount of energy transmitted (as by acoustic or electromagnetic radiation); "he adjusted the intensity of the sound"; "they measured the station''s signal strength"
n.
The state or quality of being intense; intenseness;
extreme degree; as, intensity of heat, cold, mental application,
passion, etc.
n.
The amount or degree of energy with which a force
operates or a cause acts; effectiveness, as estimated by results
produced.
n.
The magnitude of a distributed force, as pressure,
stress, weight, etc., per unit of surface, or of volume, as the case
may be; as, the measure of the intensity of a total stress of forty
pounds which is distributed uniformly over a surface of four square
inches area is ten pounds per square inch.
n.
The degree or depth of shade in a picture.
Intensity
If you would deepen the intensity of light, you must be content to bring into deeper blackness and more distinct and definite outline the shade that accompanies it. F. W. Robertson. 2.(Physics) The amount or degree of energy with which a force operates or a cause acts; effectiveness, as estimated by results produced. 3.(Mech.) The magnitude of a distributed force, as pressure, stress, weight, etc., per unit of surface, or of volume, as the case may be; 4.as, the measure of the .intensity of a total stress of forty pounds which is distributed uniformly over a surface of four square inches area is ten pounds per square inch(Photog.) The degree or depth of shade in a picture. The state or quality of being intense; intenseness; extreme degree;
as, intensity of heat, cold, mental application, passion, etc.
Usage Examples
With fame there is a crosswire between intensity and intimacy. You have decoy intimacy, but you are also very much alone.
I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.
The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
To understand the intensity of driving an F1 car, you have to be in it. When you're driving a 750hp machine at 200mph, the noise and the vibrations are incredible. The G-force when you take big corners is like someone trying to rip your head off. You hit the brakes, and it feels as if the skin is being pulled off your body.
The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.
Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.
I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.
The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.
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Other Usage ExamplesHappiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
The channels of intuitive knowledge are opened according to the intensity of individual need.
A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.
Every year, August lashes out in volcanic fury, rising with the din of morning traffic, its great metallic wings smashing against the ground, heating the air with ever-increasing intensity.
In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.
I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity.
Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course.
If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.
Intensity like signal strength will generally fall off with distance from the source, although it also depends on the local conditions and the pathway from the source to the point.
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