INTENTIONAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does intentional mean? 

• INTENTIONAL (adjective)
  The adjective INTENTIONAL has 2 senses:

1. characterized by conscious design or purpose

2. done or made or performed with purpose and intent

  Familiarity information: INTENTIONAL used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTENTIONAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Characterized by conscious design or purpose

Synonyms:

deliberate; intentional; knowing

Context example:

a deliberate attempt to provoke a response

Similar:

intended (resulting from one's intentions)

Derivation:

intention ((usually plural) the goal with respect to a marriage proposal)

intentionality (expressive of intentions)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Done or made or performed with purpose and intent

Synonyms:

designed; intentional; unintentional

Context example:

well-designed houses

Similar:

fashioned (planned and made or fashioned artistically)

Derivation:

intentionality (expressive of intentions)

 Context examples 

Intentional recall of a past memory is more than simply reawakening it; it actually leads us to forget other competing experiences that interfere with retrieval of the memory we seek.

(Selective amnesia: how rats and humans are able to actively forget distracting memories, University of Cambridge)

An easy or painless death, or the intentional ending of the life of a person suffering from an incurable or painful disease at his or her request.

(Euthanasia, NCI Dictionary)

What could all this mean but an intentional affront?

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

This applies only if the difference in the rate at which the active ingredient or moiety becomes available at the site of drug action is intentional and is reflected in the proposed labeling, is not essential to the attainment of effective body drug concentrations on chronic use, and is considered medically insignificant for the drug (21CFR320.1).

(Bioequivalence, NCI Thesaurus)

Cassini finished its tour of the Saturn system with its Grand Finale, capped by Friday's intentional plunge into the planet to ensure Saturn's moons – particularly Enceladus, with its subsurface ocean and signs of hydrothermal activity – remain pristine for future exploration.

(Cassini Spacecraft Ends Its Historic Exploration of Saturn, NASA)

Cassini is ending its 13-year tour of the Saturn system with an intentional plunge into the planet to ensure Saturn's moons - in particular Enceladus, with its subsurface ocean and signs of hydrothermal activity - remain pristine for future exploration.

(Cassini Spacecraft Makes Its Final Approach to Saturn, NASA)

An elimination disorder characterized by urinary incontinence, whether involuntary or intentional, which is not due to a medical condition and which occurs at or beyond an age at which continence is expected (usually 5 years).

(Enuresis, NCI Thesaurus)

A personality disorder characterized by an indirect resistance to demands for adequate social and occupational performance; anger and opposition to authority and the expectations of others that is expressed covertly by obstructionism, procrastination, stubbornness, dawdling, forgetfulness, and intentional inefficiency.

(Passive-Aggressive Personality, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Where there is an intentional difference in rate (e.g., in certain controlled release dosage forms), certain pharmaceutical equivalents or alternatives may be considered bioequivalent if there is no significant difference in the extent to which the active ingredient or moiety from each product becomes available at the site of drug action.

(Bioequivalence, NCI Thesaurus)