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語源

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

発音

• IPA: /ɪnˈtɛnʃən/
• Homophone: intention

名詞

intension (countable and uncountable, plural intensions)

1. (uncountable) Intensity or the act of becoming intense.
   • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:

     Sounds […] likewise do rise and fall with the intension or remission of the wind.

2. (countable, uncountable) Intensification.
3. (logic, semantics, countable) 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.

   Antonym: extension

   Holonym: comprehension

   '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. 1857, William Hamilton, edited by H[enry] L[ongueville] Mansel and John Veitch, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1859–1860, →OCLC:

     This law is, that the intension of our knowledge is in the inverse ratio of its extension.

4. (dated, countable) A straining, stretching, or bending; the state of being strained.

   the intension of a musical string

使用する際の注意点

• Not to be confused with intention.

派生語

参照

• “intension”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.