Intensification
Intensification noun - Action that makes something stronger or more extreme.
Reduction is an antonym for intensification in topics: addition, increase, improving, gathering or amassing, increase in size or effect.
Reduction
Reduction noun - Something that is or may be subtracted.
Intensification is an antonym for reduction.
Both words in one sentence
- In Europe, protests opposed to budget reform in favour of debt reduction sprouted up almost everywhere, signalling an intensification of distrust in civil government that had been growing throughout the previous decade, with the mass opposition to the war.
Source: Useful Notes / The New Tens
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