intension

Academic Word List, sublist 8.

About 0.21 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun Intensity or the act of becoming intense.
2. noun Intensification.
3. noun Any property or quality connoted by a word, phrase or other symbol, contrasted with actual instances in the real world to which the term applies.

   'Is a plant', 'has a trunk', 'has leaves' are intensions of the concept tree. Its extension is the set of all trees existing in the real world.

4. noun A straining, stretching, or bending; the state of being strained.

   the intension of a musical string

Similar words

sense connotation intensification superintensity intensifying intensifier intensive tensening ardency overintensity

Often followed by

of and is or to in as that for

Word family

intense intensely intenseness intensification intensified intensifies intensify intensifying intensional intensionalities