- an act or instance of determining mentally upon some action or result.
- the end or object intended; purpose.
- intentions,
- purpose or attitude toward the effect of one's actions or conduct: a bungler with good intentions.
- purpose or attitude with respect to marriage: Our friends are beginning to ask what our intentions are.
- the act or fact of intending.
- Logic.
- reference by signs, concepts, etc., to concrete things, their properties, classes, or the relationships among them.
- reference to properties, classes, or the relationships among first intentions.
- a manner or process of healing, as in the healing of a lesion or fracture without granulation (healing by first intention ) or the healing of a wound by granulation after suppuration (healing by second intention ).
- meaning or significance: The intention of his words was clear.
- the person or thing meant to benefit from a prayer or religious offering.
- intentness.
- a purpose or goal; aim
- the resolve or design with which a person does or refrains from doing an act, a necessary ingredient of certain offences
- a natural healing process, as by first intention, in which the edges of a wound cling together with no tissue between, or by second intention, in which the wound edges adhere with granulation tissue
- design or purpose with respect to a proposal of marriage (esp in the phrase honourable intentions)
- an archaic word for meaning, intentness
