Definitions of intension

1. Increase of power or energy of any quality or thing; intenseness; fervency.

2. The collective attributes, qualities, or marks that make up a complex general notion; the comprehension, content, or connotation; - opposed to extension, extent, or sphere.

3. Determination; increase of energy.

4. The act of straining; intensity.

5. The act of making more tense or intense; the state of being more so; the sum of attributes implied in a term.

6. The act of forcing or straining; the increase of the energy of a quality- opposed to remission.