| The meanings of intense and intensive overlap considerably, but the two adjectives often have distinctive meanings. When you describe human feeling or activity, intense often suggests a strength or concentration that arises from inner dispositions and is particularly appropriate for describing emotional states: intense pleasure, dislike, loyalty, and so forth. But you use intensive when the strength or concentration of an activity is imposed from without: intensive bombing, intensive training, intensive marketing. Thus a reference to Mark?s intense study of German suggests that Mark himself was responsible for the concentrated activity, whereas Mark?s intensive study of German suggests that the program in which Mark was studying was designed to cover a great deal of material in a brief period. | 1 |
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