intensification

from 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)

from 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]

from 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