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Definition: Intentional |
IntentionalAdjective1. By conscious design or purpose; "intentional damage"; "a knowing attempt to defraud"; "a willful waste of time". 2. Done or made or performed with purpose and intent; "style...is more than the deliberate and designed creation"- Havelock Ellis; "games designed for all ages"; "well-designed houses". 3. Done by design; "the insult was intentional"; "willful disobedience". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "intentional" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1690. (references) |
Etymology: Intentional \In*ten"tion*al\, adjective. [Compare to the French expression intentionnel.]. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In philosophy, intentionality is often superficially summarized as "aboutness". Beliefs, desires, etc. often have an object that they are about; e.g. "I believe that Johnny is alive". This is thought to be important, and perhaps something that a machine could never achieve.Note that intentionality (-tion-) is not to be confused with intensionality (-sion-), a concept from semantics.
See also: Chinese Room, Thomas Nagel, consciousness, mind-body problem, John Searle
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Intentionality."
Synonyms: IntentionalSynonyms: deliberate (adj), designed (adj), knowing (adj), wilful (adj), willful (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: undesigned (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Intention | Adjective: intended; Verb: intentional, advised, express, determinate; prepense; bound for; intending; Verb: minded; bent upon; (earnest); at stake; on the anvil, on the tapis; in view, in prospect, in the breast of; in petto; teleological |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Intentional |
| English words defined with "intentional": advisedly, Attempt to commit a crime ♦ by choice, by design ♦ deliberately, designedly ♦ False personation, fomentation, fraud ♦ Go-by ♦ instigation, intended, intentionally ♦ on purpose ♦ purposely ♦ tendentiousness, To slight off ♦ unintentional, unplanned, unwitting. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "intentional": Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Act of 1996 ♦ de-icing, deliberate release, Drug Toxicity, dry block ♦ electromagnetic interference ♦ Good samaritan laws ♦ hing ♦ infinite loop, ircop ♦ kickoff point ♦ Neuromuscular Blockade ♦ Oil Spill ♦ pendulous integrating gyro accelerometer, Porcus ♦ Scientific Misconduct, sheet splitting, shothole bridge, spread spectrum communications, squitter, stable operation, surreptitious advertising ♦ taboo frequency ♦ VAX. (references) |
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Screenplays | When you're an egoist, none of the harm you do is intentional. (Metropolitan; writing credit: Whit Stillman) | |
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| "Arcade" by Mantis Wong Commentary: "In side shot of the local arcade, shot is rather dark, but its somewhat intentional, since arcades arent supposed to be bright, right ?." | "Especially for lilyr" by Lynn Cummings Commentary: "Since some of the ladies had complained there were not enough pix of male bodies... I dedicate this one to lilyr. (The overexposure fx are intentional, he's my oldest son, and no, I won't give out his phone number. ;-)." |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Of intentional liberty, nothing |
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Health | Fifth, the adverse effects of intentional UVR exposure must be considered. (references) | |
Tremor is rarely disabling and it usually disappears during sleep or improves with intentional movement. (references) | ||
If you see someone having a non-convulsive seizure, remember that the person’s behavior is not intentional. (references) | ||
Business | The tender procedures of the Government of Singapore (GOS) and Singapore statutory boards meet GATT procurement code standards and require public announcements for all its tenders valued over S$15,000. The local tendering period is 3-8 weeks, with an intentional tendering period of three months. (references) | |
Children | Lithuania | The prevalence of authoritarian values in family upbringing discouraged more active measures against child abuse; however, the press reported increases in cruelty to children, including sexual abuse, intentional starvation, beatings, and killings. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Togo | Article 62 makes the intentional publication of false information a criminal offense, punishable by fines of $900 to $1,800 (500,000 to 1 million CFA francs). (references) |
Moldova | Under the Court's 1999 ruling, parties filing lawsuits must prove that the information was false and defamatory and published recklessly or with intentional malice. (references) | |
Economic History | Nigeria | The government also imposed a 50 percent duty on all imports that originally were undeclared in the bill of lading as penalty for importers trying to evade import duties through intentional under-invoicing. (references) |
Venezuela | In an effort to stimulate increased foreign investment, the GOV enacted the Investment Promotion and Protection Law on October 22, 1999. This legislation aims to increase security for investors by guaranteeing repatriation of profits, providing for protection in cases of expropriation and authorizing intentional arbitration in investor-state disputes, among other provisions. (references) | |
Human Rights | Egypt | If the defendant dies under torture, the crime is one of intentional murder punishable by a life sentence at hard labor. (references) |
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George Washington | 1789-1797 | Though in reviewing the incidents of my Administration I am unconscious of intentional error, I am nevertheless too sensible of my defects not to think it probable that I may have committed many errors. |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | I ask your indulgence for my own errors, which will never be intentional, and your support against the errors of others, who may condemn what they would not if seen in all its parts. |
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| "Intentional" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Intentional" is used about 259 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 259 | 18,370 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "intentional": intentional crime ♦ intentional homicide ♦ intentional thrashing ♦ intentional threat. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "intentional": non-intentional. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "intentional"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i qëllimshëm (purposeful, purposive, studied), i paramenduar (aforethought, deliberate, preconceived, premeditated, prepense), qëllimor (intentioned, purposeful), me qëllim (advisedly, by design, deliberately, designedly, expressly, hard, intently, knowingly, meaningly, objective, on purpose, purposefully, purposely, with an eye to, wittingly). (various references) | |
Arabic | مقصود (calculated, intended, meant, purposed, willful), متعمد (deliberate, designed, premeditated, purposed, wilful, willful), مراد (intended, meaning, studied). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | съзнателен (advised, conscious, deliberate, knowing, premeditated, scrupulous, sentient, voluntary), умишлен (calculated, knowing, purposeful, studied), преднамерен (aforethought, conscious, deliberate, loaded, premeditated, prepense, purposive, studied, studious, voluntary, wilful, willful), извършен с някакво намерение, извършен с някаква цел. (various references) | |
Chinese | 故意 (Deliberate, Purposely). (various references) | |
Czech | zámìrný (calculated, deliberate, purposeful, studied, wilful, willful), úmyslný (advised, calculated, conscious, deliberate, intended, prepense, purposeful, voluntary, wanton, wilful, willful). (various references) | |
Danish | intentionelt svar (intentional answer), tilsigtet systemnedbrud (deliberate thrashing, intentional thrashing), tilsigtet afbrydelse (intentional interruption), planlagt dannelse af zygoter (intentional creation of zygotes), forsætligt systemnedbrud (deliberate thrashing, intentional thrashing), forsætlige trusler (deliberate threat, intentional threat), forsætlig tilegnelse (intentional disclosure), forsætlig selv-forvoldt skade (intentional self-injury), forsætlig blotlæggelse (intentional disclosure), bevidst tilegnelse (intentional disclosure), bevidst blotlæggelse eller tilegnelse af oplysninger (deliberate disclosure of data, intentional disclosure of data), bevidst blotlæggelse (intentional disclosure). (various references) | |
Dutch | moedwillig (deliberately, on purpose), bedoeld. (various references) | |
Esperanto | intenca. (various references) | |
Farsi | قصدی (Witting), عمدی (Deliberate, Studied). (various references) | |
Finnish | tarkoituksellinen (deliberate, purposeful), tahallinen (deliberate, purposeful, wilful). (various references) | |
French | intentionnel (intended), voulu (intended), délibéré. (various references) | |
German | vorsätzlich (advisedly, deliberate, deliberately, intentionally, premeditated, purposely, voluntary, wilful, willful), absichtlich (advisedly, conscious, consciously, deliberate, deliberately, designedly, intentionally, knowingly, on purpose, puposely, purposeful, purposefully, purposely, studied, studiedly, studiously, wilful, willful). (various references) | |
Greek | σκόπιμοσ (deliberate, desirable, expedient, purposeful, purposive, wilful, willful), εκ προθέσεωσ, επίτηδεσ (deliberately, on purpose). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מזיד (wilful, willfulness), מכוון (aimed, corresponding, designed, directed, in alignment, in tune, orientated, tuned), תכליתי (down to earth, efficacious, objective, purposeful, teleological), התכונותי (deliberate). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szándékos (calculated, deliberate, intended, malicious, premeditated, purposeful, purposive, voluntary, wilful, willful). (various references) | |
Indonesian | sengaja (deliberate, expressly, purposed). (various references) | |
Italian | intenzionale (deliberate, intended, purposeful, purposive, wilful, willful), voluto (deliberate, would). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 有意的 (significant), 意図的 (on purpose), 作為的 (contrived), インダス文明 (egghead, inch, India paper, Indian, Indian jewellry, Indian summer, Indiana, Indianapolis 500-mile race, Induscivilization, integer, integrate, integrated, integration, Intel, intellectual, intelligence, intelligence service, intelligence test, intelligent, intelligent building, intelligent city, intelligent terminal, intelligentsia, Intelsat, intensity, intensive, interactive, interior, interior adviser, interior coordinator, interior craft, interior design, interior designer, interline leads, International Telecommunications Satellite Organization, Inturist, pornographic videos). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | さくいてき (contrived), いとてき (on purpose), ゆういてき (significant), インテンショナル . (various references) | |
Korean | 계획 (envisioning, PLAN, Planning, PLANS, Projecting, Projet, schedule, scheduling, scheme, scheming). (various references) | |
Manx | joinagh (remote, spontaneous, voluntary, wilful, willing). (various references) | |
Norwegian | tilsiktet. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | intentionalay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | intencional (calculated, conscious, deliberate, designed, intended, pointed, prepense, purposeful, purposive, studied, wanton, wilful, willful). (various references) | |
Romanian | intenţionat (advised, deliberate, deliberately, designedly, expressly, knowingly, minded, purposeful, purposely, studied, voluntary, wilful, with intention), voit (advisedly, deliberate, deliberately, wilful, wilfully), fãcut anume. (various references) | |
Russian | умышленный (aforethought, deliberate, felonious, purposeful, wilful, willful), намеренный (deliberate, purposive). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | nameran (deliberate, purposeful, tendencial, willful), hotimičan (deliberate, prepense, purposive). (various references) | |
Spanish | intencional. (various references) | |
Swedish | avsiklig. (various references) | |
Turkish | maksatlı (purposeful, purposive), mahsus (by design, intentionally, on purpose, purposely, wilfully), kasti (conscious, deliberate, intended, wilful, willful), kasıtlı (aforethought, deliberate, designed, designedly, felonious, intended, meaning, prepense, purposely, studied, voluntary, wilful, willful), bile bile (by design, consciously, intentionally, knowingly, on purpose, purposely, scienter, with malice aforethought, wittingly). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | навмисний (advised, aforethought, calculated, deliberate, designed, felonious, forethought, industrious, intended, malicious, prepense, purposeful, voluntary, wilful, willful). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | chủ tâm (forethought, knowingly, purposely), có ý định trước, có ý, được định trước (predesterminate). (various references) | |
Welsh | bwriadol. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "intentional": intentionalities, intentionality, intentionally. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "intentional": unintentional. (additional references) | |
Words containing "intentional": unintentionally. (additional references) | |
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"Intentional" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: intenational, intentionaly, interntional. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "intentional" (pronounced i'nte"nshunul) |
| 10 | i' n t e" n sh u n u l | unintentional. |
| 7 | -e" n sh u n u l | conventional, dimensional, unconventional. |
| 5 | -sh u n u l | aberrational, additional, binational, coeducational, compositional, computational, concessional, conditional, confessional, conformational, confrontational, congregational, congressional, connotational, constitutional, conversational, correctional, denominational, depositional, devotional, directional, dysfunctional, educational, emotional, exceptional, factional, fictional, fluxional, foundational, fractional, functional, generational, gravitational, improvisational, supranational, informational, inspirational, institutional, instructional, intergenerational, international, investigational, Invitational, irrational, jurisdictional, motivational, multinational, national, navigational, nonprofessional, nontraditional, nutritional, obsessional, occupational, operational, optional, organizational, processional, professional, promotional, proportional, rational, recreational, relational, representational, rotational, sectional, sensational, situational, traditional, transformational, transitional, transnational, unconditional, unconstitutional, unemotional, unprofessional, untraditional, vocational. |
| 4 | -u n u l | abdominal, aboriginal, Arsenal, attitudinal, biphenyl, cantonal, Cardinal, collisional, criminal, delusional, diagonal, divisional, doctrinal, duodenal, erosional, gastrointestinal, hexagonal, impersonal, subliminal, superregional, terminal, interpersonal, intestinal, juvenile, latitudinal, longitudinal, luminal, marginal, medicinal, nominal, noncriminal, occasional, octagonal, original, personal, phenomenal, polygonal, provisional, regional, retinal, seasonal, seminal, sentinel, virginal. |
| 3 | -n u l | infernal, adrenal, anal, annal, annul, atonal, autumnal, carnal, channel, Colonel, communal, cornel, Darnel, departmental, diurnal, empanel, eternal, external, faunal, fennel, final, flannel, fraternal, funnel, hormonal, Hymnal, impanel, spinal, internal, journal, kennel, kernel, maternal, monoclonal, monsoonal, morainal, nocturnal, panel, paternal, penal, polyvinyl, renal, semifinal, shrapnel, signal, tonal, tribunal, tunnel, vaginal, venal, vernal, Vinal, vinyl. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-i-l-n-n-n-o-t-t" | |
-2 letters: intention, lineation. | |
-3 letters: intonate, lenition, nontitle. | |
-4 letters: aniline, antlion, elation, enation, intitle, nitinol, toenail, tontine. | |
-5 letters: anilin, anoint, entail, entoil, eolian, eonian, etalon, innate, intent, intine, intone, iolite, latent, latino, latten, lattin, linnet, litten, nannie, nation, notate, online, talent, talion, tannin, tenail, tenant, tineal, titian, toilet, tolane, tonlet. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-i-l-n-n-n-o-t-t" | |
+2 letters: intentionally, international, unintentional. | |
+3 letters: epicontinental, intensionality, intentionality, interlineation, internationals, nonexistential. | |
+4 letters: conventionalist, conventionality, interlineations, internalization, internationally, nonexploitation, unintentionally. | |
+5 letters: anticonventional, conventionalists, counterinflation, environmentalist, intensionalities, intentionalities, intercontinental, internalizations, internationalise, internationalism, internationalist, internationality, internationalize, nonexploitations. | |
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