Noun
A straining, stretching, or bending; the state of being strained; as, the intension of a musical string.
Increase of power or energy of any quality or thing; intenseness; fervency.
The collective attributes, qualities, or marks that make up a complex general notion; the comprehension, content, or connotation; -- opposed to extension, extent, or sphere.
Source: Webster's dictionarySuch terms, it may be argued, are always intensional since they connote the property 'meaningless term' but this paradox does not constitute a counterexample to the claim that without intension a word has no meaning. Source: Internet
Ramallah/PNN/ Palestinian Legislative Council MP, prisoner Marwan al-Barghouti, member of Fatah Central Committee, announced on Saturday the intension of Palestinian prisoners and Fatah captives in Israeli jails to start a … Source: Internet
The distinction between the embedded description and the bearer itself is similar to that between the extension and the intension (Frege's terms) of a general term, or between connotation and denotation (Mill's terms). Source: Internet
For instance, the terms 'rantans' or ' brillig ' have no intension and hence no meaning. Source: Internet
In the case of a word, the word's definition often implies an intension. Source: Internet
Without intension of some sort, a word has no meaning. Source: Internet