Intention

Definition: Intention

Intention

Noun

1. An anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions; "his intent was to provide a new translation"; "good intentions are not enough"; "it was created with the conscious aim of answering immediate needs"; "he made no secret of his designs".

2. (usually plural) the goal with respect to a marriage proposal; "his intentions are entirely honorable".

3. An act of intending; a volition that you intend to carry out; "my intention changed once I saw her".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "intention" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Satire

Military & Defense

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Intention

Benevolence

Adverb: with a good intention, with the best intentions.

Intention

Noun: intent, intention, intentionality; purpose; quo animo; project; undertaking; predetermination; design, ambition.

Malevolence

Noun: malevolence; bad intent, bad intention; unkindness, diskindness; ill nature, ill will, ill blood; bad blood; enmity; hate; malignity; malice, malice prepense; maliciousness; Adjective: spite, despite; resentment.

Motive

Reason, ground, call, principle; by end, by purpose; mainspring, primum mobile, keystone; the why and the wherefore; pro and con, reason why; secret motive, arriere pensee; intention.

Predetermination

Noun: predestination, preordination, premeditation, predeliberation, predetermination; foregone conclusion, fait accompli; parti pris; resolve, propendency; intention; project; fate, foredoom, necessity.

Pursuit

Verb: pursue, prosecute, follow; run after, make after, be after, hunt after, prowl after; shadow; carry on; (do); engage in; (undertake); set about; (begin); endeavor; court; (request) seek; (search); aim at; (intention); follow the trail; (trace); fish for; (experiment); press on; (haste); run a race; (velocity).

Adverb: in pursuance of; (intention); after.

Tergiversation

Verb: change one's mind, change one's intention, change one's purpose, change one's note; abjure, renounce; withdraw from; (relinquish); waver, vacillate; wheel round, turn round, veer round; turn a pirouette; go over from one side to another, pass from one side to another, change from one side to another, skip from one side to another; go to the rightabout; box the compass, shift one's ground, go upon another tack.

Noun: change of mind, change of intention, change of purpose; afterthought.

Utility

Noun: utility; usefulness; Adjective: efficacy, efficiency, adequacy; service, use, stead, avail; help; (aid); applicability; Adjective: subservience; (instrumentality); function; (business); value; worth; (goodness); money's worth; productiveness; cui bono; (intention); utilization; (use) step in the right direction.

Will

Pleasure, wish, mind; desire; frame of mind; (inclination); intention; predetermination; selfcontrol; determination; (resolution); force of will.

Crosswords: Intention

French (design, intent, intention, meaning, mind, motive, movement, plan, purpose, sake), German (intent, intention), Swedish (intention).

It was my intention of getting Epstein in here, and putting this pistol to his ear, and blowing a tunnel through his head (Biloxi Blues; writing credit: Neil Simon)

Come on Will, tell the truth, you're actually a married man with wife and kids with no intention to ever see me again (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein)

It is not my intention to encourage braggers (The Wind and the Lion; writing credit: John Milius)

That was not my intention, Sir. (The Hunt for Red October; writing credit: Larry Ferguson)

I have no intention to, Chancellor (Queen Christina; writing credit: S.N. Behrman; H.M. Harwood)

INTENTION I FEEL INVENTIVE (BRASS IN POCKET; performing artist: The Pretenders)

Flirtation: Attention without intention. (references; author: unknown)

Mistaken Intention (1910)

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Books

• Live with Intention 2003 Calendar (reference)

• The Nature of Design: Ecology, Culture, and Human Intention (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Primary Intention (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Music

• Defected Sessions: Full Intention & Smokinojo [IMPORT] (reference)

• No Intention (reference)

• State Your Intention (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Figure 20. Color measuring lens of Julien Thoulet designed in 1903 as per the intention of Prince Albert 1st of Monaco. Thoulet tested this instrument at the laboratory at Nancy. It is possible that this instrument was also tested on the PRINCESS ALICE II in 1905. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Probably photographed about 1917. This steamship was acquired by the Navy on 12 November 1917 as USS Old Colony (SP-1254), with the intention of transferring her to the British Navy. She sailed from Boston, Massachusetts, on 16 November and was turned over to the Royal Navy upon arrival in the United Kingdom. Commissioned as HMS Old Colony in June 1918, she was sold in March 1920. Credit: NAVY.

Photographed circa 1917. Sea Hawk was one of nine 62' 4" motor boats built for private owners in 1917 by Herreshoff, Bristol, Rhode Island, with the intention that they would be made available to the Navy. She was originally named Herreshoff 319. Credit: NAVY.

Society ladies announce intention to fly -- news item. Credit: Library of Congress.

Betty Friedan, president of the National Organization for Women, tells reporters in the New York State Assembly lobby of the groups intention to "put sex into section I of the New York constitution. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

But though men, when they enter into society, give up the equality, liberty, and executive power they had in the state of nature, into the hands of the society, to be so far disposed of by the legislative, as the good of the society shall require; yet it being only with an intention in every one the better to preserve himself, his liberty and property; (for no rational creature can be supposed to change his condition with an intention to be worse) the power of the society, or legislative constituted by them, can never be supposed to extend farther, than the common good; but is obliged to secure every one's property, by providing against those three defects above mentioned, that made the state of nature so unsafe and uneasy. (Second Treatise of Government)

Could it be the intention of those who gave this power, to say that in using it the constitution should not be looked into? (reference)

China, restored to the full exercise of her sovereign rights in the above areas, declares her intention of opening them to international residence and trade. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

I had no intention, I thought I had no power of staying more than five minutes, when I first entered the house

But he does it rapidly and without any bitter or derisive intention.

It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

They may also have intention tremor. (references)

Kinetic or intention (action) tremor occurs during purposeful movement, for example during finger-to-nose testing. (references)

It should be noted that some couples do not undergo final stages of testing because of their intention to continue the pregnancy. (references)

Business

The GOI has announced its intention to reduce progressively import duty rates. (references)

New tariff and regulatory rules are being prepared with the intention of creating a standard regulatory environment. (references)

And every other day new entrants within this particular sub-sector announce their intention of opening a representative office in Dubai. (references)

Children

Japan

In November the Government announced its intention to rehire counselors dismissed from child protection centers in recent years. (references)

Civil Liberties

Yugoslavia

In March the VJ announced its intention to introduce Serbian Orthodox chaplains into its military units. (references)

Malaysia

There was little government response to the Press Freedom Day events, although the Prime Minister reaffirmed his intention to strengthen the press laws. (references)

Economic History

Australia

Sprint has ALSO recently signaled its intention to re-enter the market. (references)

Oman

The PFLOAG's declared intention was to overthrow all traditional Arab Gulf regimes. (references)

Jordan

Jordan has announced its intention to privatize the Jordan Phosphate Mines Company. (references)

Human Rights

Venezuela

They also announced their intention to visit other NGO's in the state. (references)

Hong Kong

Since the controversy, the Government has expressed its intention to make recourse to the NPC interpretation mechanism a rare and exceptional act. (references)

Zambia

In 1999 the Magistrates and Judges' Association of Zambia expressed its intention to undertake efforts to release all eligible detainees on bail in order to reduce prison congestion. (references)

Indigenous People

Canada

The treaty was ratified by the Nisga'a people in 1998 and by the provincial legislature in 1999. It was debated and passed by Parliament in 1999. Although the British Columbia legislature ratified the treaty, two groups expressed their intention to challenge the treaty in court. (references)

Malaysia

The National Human Rights Commission received complaints from three different groups representing the indigenous Iban and Penan people in Sarawak in 2000, and the Commission announced its intention to investigate the indigenous people's complaints of illegal encroachment by loggers on their lands and the alleged use of police force by logging companies. (references)

Political Economy

Nigeria

The Federal Government has expressed its intention to revise the formula, but has yet to take action. (references)

Political Rights

Kuwait

The coalitions issued platforms and expressed an intention to run together in the next elections. (references)

Congo

During the national reconciliation forum that it convened in January 1998, the Government announced its intention to enact a new constitution and hold elections within 3 years. (references)

Zimbabwe

In December the MDC filed a High Court application challenging the Government's intention to require all voters to cast ballots in the 2002 presidential election in the constituency where they are registered. (references)

Trade

Botswana

Angola and Seychelles have indicated they will accede to the trade protocol soon, but the intention of the DROC is unknown. (references)

Dominican Rep

The Dominican Republic has formally subscribed to ISO 9000 and has announced its intention to follow all subsequent ISO 9000 standards. (references)

Vietnam

Despite the government's good intention, the SBV is not an independent body like the US FED, and it continues to operate under government guidance. (references)

Travel

Cyprus

Persons arriving with the intention to work must obtain special work permits. (references)

Australia

Commercial goods brought into Australia with the intention of being sold will be subject to the normal rates of duty and sales tax, where applicable. (references)

Women

Hong Kong

The Commission declared its intention to focus on provision of health services, childcare support, protecting women against violence, promotion of a women-friendly working environment and legal issues relating to women and the family. (references)

Worker Rights

Russia

By year's end, no such legislation had been introduced, and no Duma member had indicated an intention to make this a priority. (references)

Ghana

On October 1, workers from DL Steel Limited demonstrated to protest management's intention to close the company without proper negotiations with the workers. (references)

Guinea

The Labor Code grants salaried workers, including public sector civilian employees, the right to strike 10 days after their representative union makes known its intention to strike. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "intention": ad with a good intention ♦ by intention ♦ firm intention ♦ First intention ♦ good intention ♦ have the intention ♦ have the intention of ♦ intention tremor ♦ second intention ♦ testamentary intention ♦ To heal by the first intention ♦ To heal by the second intention ♦ union by the first intention ♦ union by the second intention ♦ with intention ♦ with the intention. Additional references.

Beginning with "intention": intention-to-treat.

Afrikaans

plan (design, diagram, meaning, plan, plane, project, scheme), bedoeling (acceptation, meaning, plan). (various references)

Albanian

synim (aim, aspiration, contemplation, design, goal, intent, object, objective, purpose, view), qëllime serioze, qëllim (aim, ambition, aspiration, cause, design, designation, end, goal, idea, intent, Mark, mission, notion, object, objective, point, purport, purpose, scope, target, term, thought, view), mend (ballast, brain, brains, esprit, headpiece, imagination, memory, mind, nous, reason, savvy, wit). (various references)

Arabic 

‏همة (endeavor, endeavour, mettle, vim), ‏هدف (aim, butt, clout, end, goal, ideal, intent, mark, object, objective, plan, purpose, study, target, tendency, view), ‏نية (animus, intent, mind, notion), ‏قصد (aim, design, end, go to, goal, have in mind, intend, intent, mean, motive, object, purpose, repair to, sake, seek), ‏تصميم (design, designing, drawing, format, idea, layout, mock up, modelling, planning, purpose, resoluteness, resolution, resolve, styling, will), ‏سريرة طوية, ‏عمد قصد (design, purpose), ‏عزم (design, determination, dourness, grit, hardihood, mean business, pluck, project, purpose, resoluteness, resource, sand, steadiness), ‏بهدف. (various references)

Bulgarian 

стремеж (aim, appetite, drift, hankering, intent, search, seeking, striving, yen, zeal), умисъл (design, device, malice), смисъл (amount, effect, hang, import, intent, matter, message, point, sense, signification, sound, spirit, use), цел (aim, ambition, consummation, designation, destination, effect, end, goal, intent, mission, object, objective, point, purport, purpose, scope, target, turn), намерение (aim, aiming, animus, design, drift, intent, motion, notion, object, plan, purpose, scope, thought, view), значение (account, amount, consequence, consideration, denotation, hang, heft, import, importance, interest, magnitude, matter, meaning, message, moment, notability, object, pith, sense, significance, signification, tenor, value, weight), понятие (concept, conception, idea, name, notion), помисъл (design, thought, view), идея (concept, conception, design, idea, message, notion, suggestion, thought). (various references)

Chinese 

用心 (attentively, diligently, motive), 打算 (calculation, plan, to calculate, to intend, to plan), 意圖 (intend, intent), 意图, 動機 (motivation, motive), 心眼兒 (baseless suspicions, one's thoughts; mind, willingness to accept new ideas), 心意 (kindly feelings, regard), 念頭 (idea, thought). (various references)

Czech

zámìr (contemplation, design, entente, object, plot, purpose), plán (blueprint, design, device, map, plan, program, programme, project, roster, schedule, scheme, target), úmysl (contemplation, design, intent, thought, view, will). (various references)

Danish

hensigt (aim, goal, meaning, plan, purpose, target). (various references)

Dutch

plan (design, diagram, level, meaning, plan, plane, project, scheme), strekking (meaning, moral, plan, tendency), doel (aim, goal, meaning, plan, purpose, target), bedoeling (meaning, plan). (various references)

Esperanto

intenco (meaning, plan). (various references)

Farsi 

مفهوم (Concept, Context, Effect, Hang, Implication, Implicit, Intelligible, Moral, Purporst, Sense, Significance, Sound, Substance, Tacit), منظور (Intent, Prick, Purpose, Sake, Scope), قصد (Animus, Assumption, Attempt, Design, Intent, Pretension, Purporst, Purpose, Resolution, Thought, Will), غرض (Grudge, Peeve, Prejudice, Spite), سگال , خیال (Design, Dump, Fancy, Fiction, Ghost, Humor, Idea, Ideology, Imaginary, Impression, Mind, Notion, Plan, Spectrum, Thought, Vision, Whim, Wraith). (various references)

Finnish

aikomus (meaning, plan, purpose). (various references)

French

intention (intent), dessein. (various references)

Frisian

foarnimmen (meaning, plan), doel (aim, goal, meaning, plan, purpose, target). (various references)

German

Absicht (aim, design, game, intent, meaning, mind, object, plan, purpose, purposes, tendency, tenor, view), vorsatz (endpaper, intent, prefix, premeditation, resolution), intention (intent). (various references)

Greek 

πρόθεση (intension, intent, preposition, purpose, scope). (various references)

Hebrew 

משימה (assignment, duty, job, mission, objective, task, undertaking), מטרה (aim, cause, goal, intent, object, objective, purpose, target), תכלית (aim, completion, end, limit, object, perfection, point, purpose), כוון (aim, course, direction, intonation, lead, orientation, tack, tendency, tenor, way), כוונה, כונה (design, intent, meaning, purport, purpose, significance, spirit), התכונות (directing, intending, meaning). (various references)

Hungarian

törekvés (ambition, aspiration, effort, endeavor, endeavour, pursuit, striving, tenor), szándék (aim, animus, design, determination, drift, intent, mind, notion, object, objective, pretence, purport, purpose, resolution, resolve, tenor, thought, will), elgondolás (concept, conception, design, device, excogitation, idea, plan, slant). (various references)

Indonesian

niat (aim, plan), azam (highly respected). (various references)

Italian

intenzione (aim, attitude, intent, meaning, mind, plan, purpose, thought), proposito (aim, design, drift, goal, meaning, purpose, subject, target). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

了見 (decision, design, discretion, forgiveness, idea, inclination, motive, thought, toleration). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

いこう (authority, clothes rack, great deed, great effect, hereafter, idea, inclination, influence, lingering odor of giver, on and after, perfume on the clothing, posthumous manuscripts, power, remains, switching over to, thereafter, to relax, to repose, to rest, transposition, works following the deceased), はらづもり (ready plan), もくてき (aim, goal, objective, purpose), もくろみ (a plan, a program, a project, a scheme, goal), りょうけん (decision, design, discretion, forgiveness, gun dog, hound, hunting dog, idea, inclination, motive, thought, toleration), こころざし (motive, will), こころがけ (aim, dedication, mental attitude, readiness), こい (ancient ways, bad faith, carp, dense, entreaty, love, purpose, request, strong, tender passion, the feelings of the ancients, thick), ちょうりゃく (design, plan, project, scheme), いと (aim, design, string, thread, treasonable intent, yarn), ないい (personal opinion), かんがえ (ideas, thinking, thought), せいしん (celestial bodies, fresh, heart, mind, new, sincerity, soul, spirit, stars), つもり (plan), さくい (act, artificiality, commission, conception, design, idea, motif), しんさん (hardships, privation), しんざん (deep in the mountains, mountain recesses, newcomer, taking up a new position as chief priest of a Buddhist temple, tyro), しょぞん (opinion, thought), しこう (aim, carrying out, directional, draft of a poem, enforcing, execution, liking, making an attempt, one's own thoughts or opinion, OO, personal conduct, preference, supremacy, supreme, supreme filial piety, taste, thought, tooth tartar, waiting upon), いし (chair, couch, death by hanging, doctor, dying wish, having a person under one's control, office, physician, position, posthumous child, purpose, ruins, seat, stone, volition, will). (various references)

Korean 

기도 (airway, Prayer, Praying). (various references)

Malay

maksud (aim, goal, meaning, plan, purpose, target). (various references)

Manx

yeearree (application, ask, aspiration, aspire, beseech, fancy, importune; prayer, intreat, request, solicit, soliciting, wish, yearn), shalee (design, project, purpose, pursuit, quest), kiarail (circumspection, cogitate, cogitation, design, destine, determine, intend, prepare; care, provide, provision, purport, purpose, purvey, resolution, resolve, vigilance), join (accord, distance, remoteness, time past, volition). (various references)

Norwegian

hensikt (idea), formål. (various references)

Papiamen

intenshon (meaning, plan). (various references)

Pig Latin

intentionay.(various references)

Portuguese

intenção (aim, contemplation, counsel, intension, intent, meaning, mind, objective, plan, purport, purpose, purview, resolution, why). (various references)

Romanian

inerţie (heaviness, inaction, inertia, sluggishness), idee generalã (concept), scop (aim, butt, consummation, design, designation, effect, end, goal, intent, Mark, meaning, mission, object, objective, order, purpose, scope, serve, target, turn, use), plan (contrivance, counsel, design, device, disposition, draft, even, idea, level, map, meaning, outline, plain, plan, plane, program, programme, project, proposal, schedule, scheme, scheming, skeleton, syllabus, tabular), noţiune generalã, concept (concept, draft, draught, notion), concepţie generalã, cicatrizare (cicatrization, first intention, healing), ţel (aim, butt, design, end, goal, intent, mission, object, objective, purpose). (various references)

Russian 

намерение (aim, contemplation, design, drift, idea, intent, mind, notion, purpose, view). (various references)

Scottish

inntinn (mind, purpose), tùr (a tower, invent, meaning, sagacity, sense, understanding), tì (any one, designing to, intention : air tì a ghlacadh, nm.ind. any human being, tea), rùn (purpose, secret), los (account : a los, for the, purpose, sake), aire (attention, heed, notice, watching). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

namera (intension, intent, purpose, tendency). (various references)

Spanish

intención (animus, design, intent, meaning, mind, plan, purport, purpose, slyness). (various references)

Swedish

avsikt (aim, counsel, design, end, idea, intent, object, objective, purpose). (various references)

Tagalog

hangárin (meaning, plan), bálak (meaning, plan). (various references)

Turkish

amaç (aim, bourn, Bourne, cause, consummation, design, destination, dream, drift, function, goal, idea, ideal, intent, meaning, mission, object, objective, plan, point, purpose, purview, scope, sense, target, terminus, turn, use, view, wherefore, will). (various references)

Turkmen 

pygyl (design, purpose), pдl, niяet, hyяal (design, purpose). (various references)

Ukrainian

намір (aim, animus, contemplation, dart, design, effect, intent, notion, purpose, resolve, thought, view), мета (aim, ambition, design, effect, goal, object, objective, point, purport, purpose, use). (various references)

Vietnamese 

ý định (aim, design, drift, intent, scope, turn, will). (various references)

Welsh

goddau (purpose), bwriad (purpose), arofun (intend, purpose), arfeddyd (purpose). (various references)

Zulu

injongo (meaning, plan). (various references)

consilia, consilii, consiliis, consilio, consiliorum, consilium, consiliumque, instituta, institutum, intentio, intentionum, mens, mens mentis, mente, mentem, mentes, mentibus, mentis, mentium, mentum, proposita, proposito, propositum. (various references)

â-mananghô. (various references)

gehygd, ingehygd. (various references)

porpos. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "intention": intentional, intentionalities, intentionality, intentionally, intentions. (additional references)

Words containing "intention": unintentional, unintentionally. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Intention" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: insention, intentio, intenzione, intntion. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: tontine.

-3 letters: intent, intine, intone.

-4 letters: inion, ninon, niton, nonet, tenon, tonne.

-5 letters: inti, into, neon, nett, nine, nite, none, note, tent, tine, tint, titi, toit, tone, tote.

+1 letter: intentions.

+2 letters: inattention, incontinent, indentation, intentional, nonentities, nonidentity, noninitiate.

+3 letters: antineutrino, inattentions, inconsistent, indentations, infotainment, inteneration, intervention, noninitiates, nonintuitive, nonnutritive, nonscientist.

+4 letters: annexationist, antineutrinos, discontenting, incontinently, infotainments, intenerations, intentionally, intermountain, international, interventions, nonidentities, nonscientists, unintentional.

+5 letters: annexationists, epicontinental, exponentiation, inconsistently, intensionality, intentionality, interanimation, interlineation, internationals, noncompetition, nondistinctive, nonexistential, noninteracting, noninteractive, nonterminating, posttensioning, undernutrition.