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INTENSION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does intension mean? 

INTENSION (noun)
  The noun INTENSION has 1 sense:

1. what you must know in order to determine the reference of an expressionplay

  Familiarity information: INTENSION used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


INTENSION (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

What you must know in order to determine the reference of an expression

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

connotation; intension

Hypernyms ("intension" is a kind of...):

import; meaning; significance; signification (the message that is intended or expressed or signified)

Derivation:

intensional (used of the set of attributes that distinguish the referents of a given word)


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