ALL meanings of intention
in·ten·tion
I i - noun intention A thing intended; an aim or plan. 1
- noun intention plan, goal 1
- noun intention medical: healing process 1
- noun plural intention plans, ideas, goals 1
- noun intention an act or instance of determining mentally upon some action or result. 1
- noun intention the end or object intended; purpose. 1
- noun intention 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. 1
- noun intention the act or fact of intending. 1
- noun intention Logic. Also called first intention, primary intention. reference by signs, concepts, etc., to concrete things, their properties, classes, or the relationships among them. Also called second intention, secondary intention. reference to properties, classes, or the relationships among first intentions. 1
- noun intention Surgery, Medicine/Medical. 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) 1
- noun intention meaning or significance: The intention of his words was clear. 1
- noun intention the person or thing meant to benefit from a prayer or religious offering. 1
- noun intention Archaic. intentness. 1
- variable noun intention An intention is an idea or plan of what you are going to do. 0
- noun intention a purpose or goal; aim 0
- noun intention the resolve or design with which a person does or refrains from doing an act, a necessary ingredient of certain offences 0
- noun intention 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 0
- noun intention design or purpose with respect to a proposal of marriage (esp in the phrase honourable intentions) 0
- noun intention the act or fact of intending; determination to do a specified thing or act in a specified manner 0
- noun intention anything intended or planned; aim, end, or purpose 0
- noun intention purpose in regard to marriage 0
- noun intention meaning or import 0
- noun intention the direction or orientation of the mind toward an object 0
- noun intention the manner or process by which a wound heals: the three degrees (first, second, and third intention) are distinguished by the relative amounts and types of granulation that occur 0