overintensity

Noun

overintensity (countable and uncountable, plural overintensities)

1. The quality of being overintense.
   • And, curiously enough, one of the earliest of them was brought about, not by overintensity of rivalry between competing fishermen, leading to acts of hostility, but by undue familiarity based on mistaken notions of friendship and resulting in abuses of a social and moral nature which called for...1910, United States Bureau of Fisheries, Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries, Government Printing Office, page 98
   • If Dos Passos' argument fails to be entirely convincing the reason is probably to be found in the overintensity with which he pleads his cause. There are too many disagreeable officers, the food smells too often like garbage, and hypocrites are too hypocrital for the book to be a fair portrayal of...1923, John Trevena, Seamen's Journal, California State Library, page 19