All intensification antonyms

noun intensification

• decrease — When something decreases or when you decrease it, it becomes less in quantity, size, or intensity.
• shrinkage — the act or fact of shrinking.
• lessening — to become less.
• loss — detriment, disadvantage, or deprivation from failure to keep, have, or get: to bear the loss of a robbery.
• reduction — the act of reducing or the state of being reduced.
• subtraction — an act or instance of subtracting.
• dispersal — The action or process of distributing things or people over a wide area.
• dispersion — Also, dispersal. an act, state, or instance of dispersing or of being dispersed.
• dissipation — the act of dissipating.
• scattering — distributed or occurring here and there at irregular intervals; scattered.
• abridgment — a shortened version of a written work
• compression — the act of compressing or the condition of being compressed
• abridgement — a shortened or condensed form of a book, speech, etc., that still retains the basic contents: an abridgment of Tolstoy's War and Peace.
• contraction — When a woman who is about to give birth has contractions, she experiences a very strong, painful tightening of the muscles of her womb.
• shortening — butter, lard, or other fat, used to make pastry, bread, etc., short.
• condensation — Condensation consists of small drops of water which form when warm water vapour or steam touches a cold surface such as a window.
• diminishment — to make or cause to seem smaller, less, less important, etc.; lessen; reduce.
• stagnation — the state or condition of stagnating, or having stopped, as by ceasing to run or flow: Meteorologists forecast ozone and air stagnation.
• degradation — You use degradation to refer to a situation, condition, or experience which you consider shameful and disgusting, especially one which involves poverty or immorality.
• decline — If something declines, it becomes less in quantity, importance, or strength.
• fall — to come or drop down suddenly to a lower position, especially to leave a standing or erect position suddenly, whether voluntarily or not: to fall on one's knees.
• drop — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
• deduction — A deduction is a conclusion that you have reached about something because of other things that you know to be true.
• nadir — Astronomy. the point on the celestial sphere directly beneath a given position or observer and diametrically opposite the zenith.
• anticlimax — You can describe something as an anticlimax if it disappoints you because it happens after something that was very exciting, or because it is not as exciting as you expected.
• cliffhanger — A cliffhanger is a situation or part of a play or film that is very exciting or frightening because you are left for a long time not knowing what will happen next.
• bottom — The bottom of something is the lowest or deepest part of it.
• base — The base of something is its lowest edge or part.
• foot — (in vertebrates) the terminal part of the leg, below the ankle joint, on which the body stands and moves.
• parting — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
• separation — an act or instance of separating or the state of being separated.
• severance — the act of severing or the state of being severed.
• division — the act or process of dividing; state of being divided.
• depletion — a depleting or being depleted
• deflation — Deflation is a reduction in economic activity that leads to lower levels of industrial output, employment, investment, trade, profits, and prices.
• hindrance — an impeding, stopping, preventing, or the like.
• slump — to drop or fall heavily; collapse: Suddenly she slumped to the floor.
• failure — an act or instance of failing or proving unsuccessful; lack of success: His effort ended in failure. The campaign was a failure.