intentional🔊

Intended or planned; done deliberately or voluntarily.

Reflecting intention; marking an expenditure of will in the shape of a matter.

(law) Done with intent.

(philosophy) Object to intentionality, only appearing due to wilful perception.

(phenomenology) Directed toward or about a foci of attentional consciousness; possessing the property of being a consciousness of something.

(archaic) Something that has no essential underlying structure but apparition only as defined by perception; object only because consciousness is directed to it.

(grammar) The cohortative mood as found in Hebrew {{q|terminology borrowed from Julius Friedrich Böttcher † 1863 and now outmoded}}, and constructions of similar purpose in even more exotic languages.