the set of characteristics or properties by which the referent or referents of a given word are determined: thus, the intension of marsupial is the set containing the characteristics suckling its young and having a pouch
Compare extension (sense 11a)
b. Compare subjective intension
2. a rare word for intensity, determination
3.
a rare word for intensification
intensification
intension in American English
(ɪnˈtɛnʃən)
noun
1.
intentness; determination
2.
intensification
3.
the quality of being intense; intensity or degree of intensity
4. Logic
the properties possessed by all the objects in a term's extension; connotation
see also extension (sense 10)
Derived forms
intensional (inˈtensional)
adjective
Word origin
L intensio < intensus, pp. of intendere: see intend