Intensive vs Intension - What's the difference?
intensive | intension |
Thorough, to a great degree, with intensity.
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Demanding, requiring a great amount.
Highly concentrated.
(obsolete) Stretched; allowing intension, or increase of degree; that can be intensified.
Characterized by persistence; intent; assiduous.
(grammar) Serving to give force or emphasis.
(linguistics) Form of a word with a stronger or more forceful sense than the root on which the intensive is built.
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intensity or the act of becoming intense .
* Francis Bacon
(logic, semantics) Any property or quality connoted by a word, phrase or other symbol, contrasted to actual instances in the real world to which the term applies.
* Sir W. Hamilton
(dated) A straining, stretching, or bending; the state of being strained.
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As nouns the difference between intensive and intension
is that intensive is (linguistics) form of a word with a stronger or more forceful sense than the root on which the intensive is built while intension is intensity or the act of becoming intense .As an adjective intensive
is thorough, to a great degree, with intensity.intensive
English
(wikipedia intensive)Adjective
(en adjective)- She was moved to the intensive care unit of the hospital.
- Secondly, I continue to base my concepts on intensive study of a limited suite of collections, rather than superficial study of every packet that comes to hand.
- This job is difficult because it is so labour-intensive .
- I took a three-day intensive course in finance.
- an intensive verb or preposition
See also
* extensiveNoun
(en noun)intension
English
(wikipedia intension)Noun
(en noun)- Sounds likewise do rise and fall with the intension or remission of the wind.
- This law is, that the intension of our knowledge is in the inverse ratio of its extension.
- the intension of a musical string