intention
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English entencioun, intention, from Old French entencion, from Latin intentiō, intentiōnem. Compare intent. Equivalent to intent + -ion.
Base: intent
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: intentions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: entention
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: intentions
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: intentioning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: intentioned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: intentioned
pos: verb
tags: past
form: entention
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A course of action that a person intends to follow.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: My intention was to marry a wealthy widow.
It’s easy to promise anything when you have no intention of fulfilling any of it.
a. 1784, attributed to Samuel Johnson
Hell is paved with good intentions.
“My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”
It had been his intention to go to Wimbledon, but as he himself said: “Why be blooming well frizzled when you can hear all the results over the wireless. And results are all that concern me.[…]”
gloss: The goal or purpose.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The intention of this legislation is to boost the economy.
Though most of the cases here cover European encounters with non-Europeans, it is not the intention of the book to give the impression that genocide is a function of European colonialism and imperialism alone.
gloss: Tension; straining, stretching.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: cold in those inner parts, cold belly, and hot liver, causeth crudity, and intention proceeds from perturbations […].
gloss: A stretching or bending of the mind toward an object or a purpose (an intent); closeness of application; fixedness of attention; earnestness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: it is attention: when the mind with great earnestness, and of choice, fixes its view on any idea, considers it on all sides, and will not be called off by the ordinary solicitation of other ideas, it is that we call intention or study
gloss: The object toward which the thoughts are directed; end; aim.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: In a Word, the most part of chronical Distempers proceed from Laxity of Fibres; in which Case the principal Intention is to restore the Tone of the solid Parts; […].
gloss: Any mental apprehension of an object.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: The process of the healing of a wound.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: When healing occurs by primary intention, the wound is basically closed with all areas of the wound connecting and healing simultaneously.
gloss: To intend.
pos: verb
Synonyms: aim
ambition
drive
goal
intent
intention
plan
will
Antonyms: chance
Related words: intend
intent
well-intended
purpose
desire
Derived words: counter-intention
intentional
intentionless
misintention
nonintention
paradoxical intention
secondary intention
subintention
the road to hell is paved with good intentions
well-intentioned
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