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Aggravation vs Intensification - What's the difference?

aggravation | intensification |

As nouns the difference between aggravation and intensification

is that aggravation is the act of aggravating, or making worse; used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences while intensification is the act or process of intensifying, or of making more intense.

aggravation

English

(Webster 1913)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of aggravating, or making worse; used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences.
  • Exaggerated representation.
  • An extrinsic circumstance or accident which increases the guilt of a crime or the misery of a calamity.

    • Synonyms

    * provocation, irritation.

    Related terms

    * aggravate

    External links

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    intensification

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or process of intensifying, or of making more intense.