intenseness

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

INTENSENESS, noun intens'ness. The state of being strained or stretched; intensity; as the intenseness of a cord. 1. The state of being raised or concentrated to a great degree; extreme violence; as the intenseness of heat or cold. 2. Extreme closeness; as the intenseness of study or thought.
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