Term

Intensity

The book's word for a stormy, fast and loud feeling. Alderton sets it against intimacy. It is the author's image, not a term from psychology.

Explained in

Everything I Know About Love, Dolly Alderton
The Like Switch, Jack Schafer, Marvin Karlins
In Schafer's formula: how well a person meets another person's psychological and physical needs through words and behavior.