Is there a term for words such as very
extremely
likely
super
, which modify the intensity of something?
Obviously these are all adverbs, but yesterday
is also an adverb, and that does not change the intensity of something
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Sign up to join this communityThey are called intensifiers. This term is pretty widespread, and I couldn't think of another.