Intensification

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Intensification \In*ten`si*fi*ca"tion\, n.
     The act or process of intensifying, or of making more
     intense.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  intensification
       n 1: action that makes something stronger or more extreme
       2: the act of increasing the contrast of (a photographic film)

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  42 Moby Thesaurus words for "intensification":
     accelerando, acceleration, aggravation, amplification, annoyance,
     augmentation, beefing-up, blowing up, blowup, concentration,
     condensation, consolidation, contentiousness, deepening,
     deliberate aggravation, deterioration, embittering, embitterment,
     enhancement, enlargement, exacerbation, exaggeration, exasperation,
     explosion, heating-up, heightening, increase,
     information explosion, irritation, magnification, pickup,
     population explosion, provocation, redoubling, reinforcement,
     sharpening, souring, speedup, step-up, strengthening, tightening,
     worsening