intentional
/ɪnˈtɛn(t)ʃ(ə)nəl/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.72 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Intended or planned; done deliberately or voluntarily.
adj
Reflecting intention; marking an expenditure of will in the shape of a matter.
adj
Done with intent.
adj
Object to intentionality, only appearing due to wilful perception.
adj
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.
Archaic
Example Sentences
- "It should, however, be borne in mind that even in the cohortative proper, the -ah does not add to the simple imperfect the ‘intentional’ signification expressed by that mood: the signification is already there, and the new termination merely renders it more prominent."
- "When Kafka’s novels are analyzed with the autistic frame of reference in mind the behavior of his protagonists make more sense and will reveal that Kafka’s protagonists focus on external behavioral cues which are guided by Kafka’s education and mindset of a lawyer. As such Kafka’s protagonists are a reflection of the thinking and behavior of Kafka the author. Critics and literary scholars misinterpret Kafka’s work by focusing on aspects such as the psychological and mental state of the characters, which are of limited actual concern for the externally intentional focus of the writer Kafka."
- "It is of the very nature of consciousness to be intentional and a consciousness that would cease to be consciousness of something would for that very reason cease to exist."
- "Tariana distinguishes interrogative and imperative moods. Interrogative mood is marked through a separate set of evidentials fused with tense (see §14.2). Imperatives are discussed in §16.1. Modalities include: frustrative (§16.2), intentional (§16.3), apprehensive (§16.4), uncertainty (§16.5), conditional (§16.6), purposive (§16.7) and counter-expectation (§16.8). […] The intentional is marked with the clitic -kasu. It can occur with any group of verbs, marking imminent action, as in 16.60 and intention, as in 16.61."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Proto-Italic *en- Latin in- Proto-Indo-European *ten- Proto-Indo-European *tend- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *téndeti Proto-Italic *tendō Latin tendō Latin intendō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Medieval Latin intentiō Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Medieval Latin -ālis Medieval Latin intentiōnālisbor. English intentional Borrowed from Medieval Latin intentiōnālis, from intentiō + -ālis. By surface analysis, intention + -al.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɪnˈtɛn(t)ʃ(ə)nəl/
- British English: /ɪnˈtɛnʃn̩(ə)l/
Usage
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
Synonyms
deliberate
purposeful
purposive
about
concerned with
oriented
advertent
conscious
witting
intentional
on purpose
volitational