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Intensive

//ɪnˈtɛnsɪv// adj, noun

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Adjective

1
Done with intensity or to a great degree; thorough.
"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."
2
Being made more intense.
3
Making something more intense; intensifying.; Of agriculture: increasing the productivity of an area of land.
4
Making something more intense; intensifying.; Of a word: serving to give emphasis or force.
"an intensive verb or preposition"
5
Involving much activity in a short period of time; highly concentrated.
"I took a three-day intensive course in finance."

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6
Of or pertaining to innate or internal intensity or strength rather than outward extent.
7
Chiefly suffixed to a noun: using something with intensity; requiring a great amount of something; demanding.
"This job is difficult because it is so labour-intensive."
8
Chiefly suffixed to a noun: using something with intensity; requiring a great amount of something; demanding.; Chiefly in intensive care: of care or treatment: involving a great degree of life support, monitoring, and other forms of effort in order to manage life-threatening conditions.
"She was moved to the intensive-care unit of the hospital."
9
That can be intensified; allowing an increase of degree. obsolete
"As his [God's] Perfection is infinitely greater than the perfection of a Man, ſo it is infinitely greater than the perfection of an Angel; and vvere it not infinitely greater than the perfection of an Angel, it could not be infinitely greater than the perfection of a Man, becauſe the intenſive diſtance betvveen the perfection of an Angel and of a Man is but finite: […]"
10
Synonym of intense (“extreme or very high or strong in degree; of feelings, thoughts, etc.: strongly focused”). obsolete
"Faſcination is the povver and act of Imagination, intenſiue vpon other bodies, than the bodie of the Imaginant; […]"

Adjective

1
characterized by a high degree or intensity; often used as a combining form wordnet
2
of agriculture; intended to increase productivity of a fixed area by expending more capital and labor wordnet
3
tending to give force or emphasis wordnet

Noun

1
A thing which makes something more intense; specifically (linguistics), a form of a word with a more forceful or stronger sense than the root on which it is built.
2
a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies wordnet
3
A course taught intensively, involving much activity in a short period of time.
"Beginning in 2014, ETSI [the Emory-Tibet Science Initiative] embarked on a six-year implementation phase at three monastic universities (Sera, Ganden, and Drepung). This program is composed of summer intensives taught by faculty from Emory and other institutions, year-round study led by on-site instructors, translation and production of bilingual textbooks and instructional videos, and further curriculum refinement."

Etymology

Etymology 1

The adjective is derived from Late Middle English intensive (“fervent, great, intense”), borrowed from Old French intensif, intensive (modern French intensif) + Middle English -ive (suffix meaning ‘of the nature of, relating to’ forming adjectives), equivalent to intense + -ive. Intensif is from Medieval Latin intēnsīvus, from Latin intēnsus (“attentive; eager, intent; intensive”) + -īvus (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘doing; related to doing’); and intēnsus is the perfect passive participle of intendō (“to stretch out, strain”), from in- (prefix meaning ‘to, towards’) + tendō (“to extend, stretch, stretch out”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tend- (“to extend, stretch”)). Doublet of intend. The noun is derived from the adjective.

Etymology 2

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