Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (2)
1.
action that makes something stronger or more extreme;
2.
the act of increasing the contrast of (a photographic film);
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Intensification \In*ten`si*fi*ca"tion\, n.
The act or process of intensifying, or of making more
intense.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
intensification
n 1: action that makes something stronger or more extreme
2: the act of increasing the contrast of (a photographic film)
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
42 Moby Thesaurus words for "intensification":
accelerando, acceleration, aggravation, amplification, annoyance,
augmentation, beefing-up, blowing up, blowup, concentration,
condensation, consolidation, contentiousness, deepening,
deliberate aggravation, deterioration, embittering, embitterment,
enhancement, enlargement, exacerbation, exaggeration, exasperation,
explosion, heating-up, heightening, increase,
information explosion, irritation, magnification, pickup,
population explosion, provocation, redoubling, reinforcement,
sharpening, souring, speedup, step-up, strengthening, tightening,
worsening