intention🔊

A course of action that a person intends to follow.

The goal or purpose.

(obsolete) Tension; straining, stretching.

A stretching or bending of the mind toward an object or a purpose (an intent); closeness of application; fixedness of attention; earnestness.

(obsolete) The object toward which the thoughts are directed; end; aim.

(obsolete) Any mental apprehension of an object.

(medicine) The process of the healing of a wound.

To intend.