intentional

adjective more intentional · most intentional

1. Intended or planned; done deliberately or voluntarily.
2. Reflecting intention; marking an expenditure of will in the shape of a matter. 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.
3. Done with intent.
4. Object to intentionality, only appearing due to wilful perception.
5. Directed toward or about a foci of attentional consciousness; possessing the property of being a consciousness of something. It is of the very nature of consciousness to be intentional and a consciousness that would cease to be consciousness of something would for that very reason cease to exist.

Similar: purposeful, purposive, about, concerned with, oriented, advertent, conscious, witting, intentional, on purpose, volitational, volitional

noun intentionals

1. archaic Something that has no essential underlying structure but apparition only as defined by perception; object only because consciousness is directed to it.
2. 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. 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), cond