INTENSION
\ɪntˈɛnʃən], \ɪntˈɛnʃən], \ɪ_n_t_ˈɛ_n_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of INTENSION
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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Increase of power or energy of any quality or thing; intenseness; fervency.
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The collective attributes, qualities, or marks that make up a complex general notion; the comprehension, content, or connotation; - opposed to extension, extent, or sphere.
By Oddity Software
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Increase of power or energy of any quality or thing; intenseness; fervency.
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The collective attributes, qualities, or marks that make up a complex general notion; the comprehension, content, or connotation; - opposed to extension, extent, or sphere.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By James Champlin Fernald
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The act of making more tense or intense; the state of being more so; the sum of attributes implied in a term.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
