intentions
- 1Plural of intention.
The committee questioned the company's intentions behind the sudden donation.
Despite his best intentions, the project fell apart within a month.
Note
The plural belongs to the countable side of intention, where aims can be counted one by one or gathered up as a person's motives taken together. It settles easily into set phrases such as good intentions, best intentions and honorable intentions. Older senses of intention, now obsolete, pictured a stretching or bending of the mind toward an object. The plural keeps only the living meanings of aims and purposes.
intentions is a form of intention
intention, noun: A planned course of action that someone has decided to follow. Full entry
- Forms
- intentionintentions plural
- Spelling
- intention → intentions: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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