noun

• 1Logic
  The internal content of a concept.

  Often contrasted with extension (sense 6)

  ‘All versions of externalism have in common that intensions don't determine extensions.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘In the language of nominalism, the terms ‘black’ and ‘white’ purport to have mutually exclusive intensions and should therefore have mutually exclusive extensions, which they do not.’
  • ‘On the other hand, two sentences have the same intension if they are logically equivalent, i.e., their equivalence is due to the semantic rules of the language.’
  • ‘‘Inhalt’ stands for content, but is meant here in the sense of cognitive content or meaning rather than stuff, of intension as opposed to extension.’
  • ‘They provide a vehicle for the imaginative extension and intension of space beyond and within the realist scale of the city.’
• 2 archaic Resolution or determination.

  Synonyms

  determination, purpose, purposefulness, resolve, resoluteness, single-mindedness, strength of will, strength of character, will power, firmness, firmness of purpose, fixity of purpose, intentness, decision, decidedness