intentionality
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8.0
- noun
- /ɪnˌtɛnʃəˈnælɪti/
- Formal
:
intencionalidad
- Successful living requires intentionality in setting and achieving personal goals.
- tacit intentionality
- affective intentionality
- conscious intentionality
I think some degree of intentionality is is good and warranted.
- I think some degree of intentionality is is good and warranted.
- Instead, minimalism is predicated on intentionality, which means we minimalists spend our money.
- So this is the realm of intentionality.
- What I what I crave is encouraging someone to build their rich life with intentionality.
- And, and it requires a huge amount of intentionality from the people at the top.
- Without understanding or intentionality, we can't describe what the machine is doing when it's running a program as thinking.
- Successful living is always an act of intentionality and a level of intensity and a level of work that other people won't do.
- And you know, he worked with John Cage and they were very much inspired by chance operations so that things would come together without intentionality.
- And so, you know, the intentionality is still the main thing.
- But a lack of intentionality on someone else's part.
- I think that it is about intentionality, right?
- It's not towards them early on your intentionality is for yourself.
- And it was just like intentionality of like we need to win at all cost.
Examples
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I think that it is about intentionality, right?
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To have agency is to have will, volition, intentionality, and selfhood.
Academic text (1994) -
And so, you know, the intentionality is still the main thing.
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It's got to be some sort of intentionality, some sort of intelligence.
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And this lack of intentionality is the reason why you feel stuck.
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Now that I know where I am heading, I can trace my steps and see the intentionality.
Fiction book (1998) -
We are gaining insight into the intentionality of an individual.
Academic text (1999) -
It's really interesting how we judge intentionality and you only recognize how intentional you wish you were when you lose something.
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Successful living is always an act of intentionality and a level of intensity and a level of work that other people won't do.
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Compassion puts us more in tune with the interests and intentionalities of others.
Academic text (1999)
Synonyms
1
4.9
A clear aim and strong determination to reach it
1
6.7
A careful, thoughtful, and slow way of acting or making decisions
1
6.8
The quality of having a clear goal and working toward it
A quality of having a clear plan or reason for action
Antonyms
How Intentional
Surface Forms
Morphology
intentionality = intentional (semi-transparent) = intentional + ity
Forming a noun from the adjective 'intentional' with '-ity' is a standard, directly derivable process.
Etymology
Intentionality comes from the same idea behind intend and tension, a root that meant 'to stretch toward' or 'reach for'. So intentionality is the quality of having an aim or purpose, meaning your mind is 'directed toward' something.