intension

Meanings

1. intensity or the act of becoming intense.
2. 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.
3. A straining, stretching, or bending; the state of being strained.

Etymology

From Latin intēnsiō (“straining, effort; intensifying”), from intēnsus (“stretched”), perfect passive participle of intendō (“strain or stretch toward”).