intention
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
intention/ɪnˈtenʃn/
▶noun
- 1 an aim or plan.
■ the action or fact of intending.
■ (one's intentions) a person's, especially a man's, plans in respect to marriage.
- 2 Medicine the healing process of a wound.
- 3 (intentions) Logic conceptions formed by directing the mind towards an object.
– derivatives
-intentioned adjective.
-intentioned adjective.
'intention' also found in these Oxford entries:
adjourn
- aim
- and
- announce
- arrière-pensée
- automatism
- bluff
- bona fide
- bona fides
- borrow
- chance
- contemplate
- counterfeit
- court
- day trading
- deprave
- device
- earnest
- effective demand
- evade
- final clause
- finger
- first intention
- fortuitous
- good faith
- groom
- heroic
- indicate
- intent
- intention tremor
- lest
- let
- loiter
- malice
- malice aforethought
- mens rea
- notice
- parasuicide
- penny
- plan
- relent
- resignation
- resolution
- review
- scope
- scurrilous
- second intention
- shall
- show trial
