intenseness

His intenseness made her pause.

Greediness; strong appetite; eagerness; intenseness of desire; as, to eat with avidity.

The scornful toss of the head, the disdainful curve of the upper-lip, the affected heave of the shoulders, the insolent stare, and the air of proud condescension, is studied with far more intenseness than their grammars or geographies.

Many of them, unknowingly, are warm admirers of Lord Chesterfield’s “Advice,” and practise the “airs and graces” before a looking-glass with an intenseness and indefatigability which, no doubt, that great philosopher would fully appreciate.

When the sheet had fallen back on the bed, Michael was deathly pale, with a look of intenseness gleaming in his eyes.