intentional
Pronunciation: /ɪnˈtɛnʃn̩(ə)l/
The English word “intentional” has 7 meanings listed here.
adjective
- Intended or planned; done deliberately or voluntarily.
- Reflecting intention; marking an expenditure of will in the shape of a matter.
- Done with intent.
- Object to intentionality, only appearing due to wilful perception.
- Directed toward or about a foci of attentional consciousness; possessing the property of being a consciousness of something.
noun
- Something that has no essential underlying structure but apparition only as defined by perception; object only because consciousness is directed to it.
- The cohortative mood as found in Hebrew (terminology borrowed from Julius Friedrich Böttcher † 1863 and now outmoded), and constructions of similar purpose in even more exotic languages.
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin intentiōnālis, from intentiō + -ālis. By surface analysis, intention + -al.
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