noun
- intensification; increase in degree.
- intensity; high degree.
- relative intensity; degree.
- exertion of the mind; determination.
- Logic. (of a term) the set of attributes belonging to all and only those things to which the given term is correctly applied; connotation; comprehension.Compare extension(def 12).
noun
- logic
- the set of characteristics or properties by which the referent or referents of a given word are determined: thus, the intension of marsupial is the set containing the characteristics suckling its young and having a pouchCompare extension (def. 11a)
- Compare subjective intension
- a rare word for intensity, determination
- a rare word for intensificationSee intensification
c.1600, from Latin intensionem (nominative intensio) “a stretching, straining, effort,” noun of action from past participle stem of intendere (see intend).