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What is the noun for intention?

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intention
  1. The goal or purpose behind a specific action or set of actions.
  2. (obsolete) Tension; straining, stretching.
  3. A stretching or bending of the mind toward an object; closeness of application; fixedness of attention; earnestness.
  4. (obsolete) The object toward which the thoughts are directed; end; aim.
  5. (obsolete) Any mental apprehension of an object.
  6. (medicine) The process of the healing of a wound.
  7. Synonyms:
  8. Examples:
    1. “Last night, James announced his intention to travel through South America.”
      “There appeared to be an intention by the group to harm the community.”
      “Sally tried to ascertain the intention behind Harry's frantic gesturing.”
intendiment
  1. (obsolete) Understanding; careful consideration, attention.
  2. (obsolete) Intention, objective.
intent
  1. A purpose; something that is intended.
  2. (law) The state of someone’s mind at the time of committing an offence.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “The flattery was profuse, and she would eventually cotton on to his true intent.”
      “The wording may have been ambiguous, but the intent was crystal clear.”
intendment
  1. (law) the sense in which the legal system interprets something, especially the intention of legislation
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Who, it is to be asked, is within the legislative grasp or intendment, of the statute under consideration?”
      “Might I say, if you look at intendment, again Justice Dixon seems to have constructed his more narrow conception of section 75 around a very different circumstance.”
      “Turning to the present case, the question then arises whether the true intendment of the contract was such as to permit an immediate withdrawal of the licence.”
intentionalism
  1. The theory that the meaning of any text is determined by the intentions of its author, whether stated or not.
  2. Examples:
    1. “In The Possibility of Criticism, three arguments are offered against intentionalism.”
      “Here, then, we can best understand the boundaries of sandwich taxonomy via intentionalism.”
      “There are two obvious objections to Abelard's intentionalism.”
intentionality
  1. (philosophy) The defining characteristic of the mental state of a person when deliberating about an intention.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “For me, the intentionality, the planning, is wonderfully creative and incredibly sexy.”
      “This ability fundamentally relies on the concepts of intention and intentionality.”
      “I think we can safely say that the intentionality behind the ethnic cleansing of 750,000 is established beyond reasonable doubt.”
intentionalist
intended
intendedness
  1. The state or quality of being intended.
entention
  1. Obsolete form of intention.
intentness
  1. The condition of being intent.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “He watched those games from the baseline underneath the basket with a level of intentness belying his youth.”
      “Those amber eyes studied me with that worried intentness that I'd known so long ago.”
      “Hard-faced mercenaries watched the crowd with the same intentness that she did.”
entent
  1. Obsolete form of intent.
intender
  1. One who intends.
  2. Examples:
    1. “In developing these tools, we recognized Autobytel as the industry leader in automotive consumer intender purchase information requests.”
      “Next to beat bean, next to beat bean next to be blender, next to between, next to between in intend intender.”
      “It is a question that can only be formulated in terms of an asker, a point of reference, and an intender and that consequently can be intelligible only in human terms.”
intentation
  1. (obsolete) intention
intentionalists
  1. plural of intentionalist
intentionalities
intendiments
  1. plural of intendiment
intendments
intentnesses
intentions
  1. plural of intention
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  3. Examples:
    1. “It is really immaterial how much we are promised about the good intentions of the new owners.”
      “The composer's intentions may be notated as dots, dashes, accents, and slurs.”
      “The only blemish on such noble intentions was the absence yesterday of ordinary people.”
ententions
  1. plural of entention
intendeds
intenders
  1. plural of intender
entents
  1. plural of entent
intents
  1. plural of intent
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The displayed info can be customized to a certain degree but for all intents and purposes the overall design is static.”
      “Japan is, for all intents and purposes, our strongest ally in Asia at the moment.”
      “Briggs scored their third goal on the three quarter hour, 3-11 to 1-6, game, set, and match to all intents and purposes.”
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