intension.
Intensity or the act of becoming intense.
Meaning & usage
Intensity or the act of becoming intense.
Intensification.
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.
A straining, stretching, or bending; the state of being strained.
the intension of a musical string
Where this word comes from
From Latin intēnsiō (“straining, effort; intensifying”), from intēnsus (“stretched”), perfect passive participle of intendō (“strain or stretch toward”).
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