intense

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It is profoundly interested in experience on its intense, that is to say, its passionate side.

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  1. adjective Possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to an extreme degree: the intense sun of the tropics.
  2. adjective Extreme in degree, strength, or size: intense heat.
  3. adjective Involving or showing strain or extreme effort: intense concentration.
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  • The chamberlain was no longer the buffoon; his eyes were suddenly strangely compelling and intense, and the boy found their penetrating stare highly uncomfortable. —  Death Gate Cycle 1 - Dragon Wing
  • He is intense, and, it seems, a little surprised to discover that pleasure is so simple to achieve. —  GUDMagazineIssue1::Autumn2007
  • The heat was very intense, and hot weather always affected her unhappily. —  The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss
  • They were at times very intense, and, I had almost said, awe-struck, seemed bathed in a sweet Sabbath stillness, and to belong rather to the other world than to this of time and sense. —  The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss
  • The greater the crisis, the more intense should be his isolated reckoning with his own soul. —  Lawrence - Kangaroo
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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin intēnsus, stretched, intent, from past participle of intendere, to stretch, intend; see intend.

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  1. from French intense = Spanish Portuguese Italian intenso, from Latin intensus, stretched tight, past participle of intendere, stretch out: see intend.
 

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