Definition of Intension

1. Noun. What you must know in order to determine the reference of an expression.

Exact synonyms: Connotation
Generic synonyms: Import, Meaning, Significance, Signification
Derivative terms: Connotational, Connote, Intensional

Definition of Intension

1. n. A straining, stretching, or bending; the state of being strained; as, the intension of a musical string.

Definition of Intension

1. Noun. intensity or the act of becoming intense . ¹

2. Noun. (context: logic semantics) Any property or quality connoted by a word, phrase or other symbol, contrasted to actual instances in the real world to which the term applies. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Intension

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Intension

intensely
intenseness
intensenesses
intenser
intensest
intensification
intensification chemotherapy
intensifications
intensified
intensifier
intensifiers
intensifies
intensify
intensifying
intensifying screen
intension (current term)
intensional
intensional definition
intensional logic
intensionality
intensionally
intensions
intensities
intensitive
intensity
intensity level
intensity of sound
intensive
intensive-care
intensive care

Literary usage of Intension

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Evolution, racial and habitudinal by John Thomas Gulick (1905)
"... intension. The possible combinations of the ten varieties in question, any one of which is as likely to occur as is any other, are i ,024, ..."

2. The Science of Logic: Or, an Analysis of the Laws of Thought by Asa Mahan (1857)
"The terms extension and intension, breadth and depth, are employed by Sir William Hamilton to represent these two opposite principles. ..."

3. The Theory of Teaching and Elementary Psychology by Albert Salisbury (1905)
"intension and Extension.—Every class concept may be considered from two points of view ... The first named aspect constitutes the intension, or Connotation, ..."

4. Philosophical Remains of Richard Lewis Nettleship by Richard Lewis Nettleship (1901)
"THE GENERALITY OF CONCEPTS I. Extension and intension of Concepts. ... The sum of these elements or marks is sometimes called the intension or comprehension ..."

5. The Principles of Logic by Francis Herbert Bradley (1883)
"If in considering an idea you attend to its content, you have its intension or comprehension. Its extension may be taken in two different senses. ..."

6. An Outline of the Necessary Laws of Thought: A Treatise on Pure and Applied by William Thomson (1863)
"That a judgment may be interpreted either in its extension, or intension, ... Iridium is among lustrous things— or in intension— The notion of some lustrous ..."

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