intentional

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin intentiōnālis. By surface analysis, intention +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtɛnʃənəl/, [ɪnˈtʰɛnʃn̩ɫ̩]

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

intentional (comparative more intentional, superlative most intentional)

1. Intended or planned; done deliberately or voluntarily.
2. Reflecting intention; marking an expenditure of will in the shape of a matter.
   • 1892, Samuel Rolles Driver, A Treatise on the Use of the Tenses in Hebrew, Third, Revised And Improved edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 79:

     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.

   • 2017 May 16, Jerry Stuger, “Kafka and Autism. The Undisclosed Logic Behind Kafka’s Work”, in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, volume 47, →DOI, pages 2336–2347:

     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.

3. (law) Done with intent.
4. (philosophy, obsolete) Object to intention, only appearing due to wilful perception.

Synonyms

• (intended): deliberate, purposeful, purposive, see Thesaurus:intentional

Antonyms

• unintentional

Derived terms

• intentional community
• intentional fallacy
• intentional grounding
• intentionality
• intentionally
• intentional pass
• intentional species
• intentional walk

 

Translations

intended or planned; done deliberately or voluntarily

• Belarusian: наўмы́сны (naŭmýsny)
• Bulgarian: преднаме́рен (bg) (prednaméren), уми́шлен (bg) (umíšlen)
• Catalan: intencionat
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 故意 (zh) (gùyì), 蓄意 (zh) (xùyì), 有意 (zh) (yǒuyì), 刻意 (zh) (kèyì), 存心 (zh) (cúnxīn)

• Czech: záměrný (cs), úmyslný (cs)
• Dutch: opzettelijk (nl)
• Esperanto: intenca
• Finnish: tahallinen (fi), tarkoituksellinen (fi), aikomuksellinen
• French: volontaire (fr), intentionnel (fr)
• Georgian: წინასწარგანზრახული (c̣inasc̣arganzraxuli), დაგეგმილი (dagegmili), გამიზნული (gamiznuli), განზრახი (ganzraxi)
• German: absichtlich (de), vorsätzlich (de)
• Hebrew: בכוונה \ בְּכַוָּנָה (b'khavaná), מכוון (mekhuvan)
• Hungarian: szándékos (hu)
• Icelandic: viljandi
• Japanese: 故意の (ja) (koi no), 意図的な (ja) (itoteki na)
• Korean: 고의적인 (gouijeogin)
• Latin: meditātus, ultrōneus
• Macedonian: намерен (nameren)
• Malayalam: മനഃപൂർവ്വം (ml) (manaḥpūṟvvaṁ)
• Maori: āta (this modifier is placed before its associated verb), mārie (this modifier is placed after its associated verb), mārire (this modifier is place after its associated verb)
• Persian: عمدی (fa) ('amdi)
• Polish: zamierzony (pl), umyślny (pl), celowy (pl), intencjonalny (pl)
• Portuguese: intencional (pt)
• Romanian: intenționat (ro)
• Russian: преднаме́ренный (ru) (prednamérennyj), умы́шленный (ru) (umýšlennyj), наме́ренный (ru) (namérennyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: намеран, намјеран

  Roman: nameran, namjeran (sh)

• Slovak: zámerný, úmyselný
• Slovene: nameren
• Spanish: intencional (es)
• Swedish: avsiktlig (sv), uppsåtlig (sv)
• Ukrainian: навми́сний (navmýsnyj), уми́сний (umýsnyj)

done with intent

• Bulgarian: умишлен (bg) (umišlen)
• Catalan: intencionat
• Dutch: met voorbedachte rade
• Georgian: განზრახი (ganzraxi), განზრახული (ganzraxuli), გამიზნული (gamiznuli)
• German: vorsätzlich (de)
• Hungarian: szándékos (hu)
• Persian: عمدی (fa) ('amdi)
• Portuguese: intencional (pt)
• Russian: преднаме́ренный (ru) (prednamérennyj)
• Swedish: med uppsåt

Noun

intentional (plural intentionals)

1. (philosophy, archaic) Something that has no essential underlying structure but apparition only as defined by perception; object only because consciousness is directed to it.
2. (grammar) The cohortative mood as found in Hebrew (terminology borrowed from Julius Friedrich Böttcher † 1863 and now outmoded), and constructions of similar purpose in even more exotic languages.
   • 2003, Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, “16 - Mood and modality”, in A Grammar of Tariana, from Northwest Amazonia‎^[1], Cambridge University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 371, 383:

     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.