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intentionality

[ in-ten-shuh-nal-i-tee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

the fact or quality of being done on purpose or with intent:
The author’s choice here may not have been intentionally racially charged, but discrimination and prejudice are often not rooted in intentionality.
an attitude of purposefulness, with a commitment to deliberate action:
“Active hope” is a practice that does not require optimism; instead, it requires intentionality.
Metaphysics.
1. the capacity of the mind to refer to an existent or nonexistent object:
  The mind has intentionality as it is directed toward something it affirms, desires, loves, or hates; but the something is not necessarily real.
2. (said of consciousness or a sign) the fact or property of pointing beyond itself:
  We relate to the world through intentionality—the capacity of consciousness to be about states of affairs outside itself.

First recorded in 1610–20; from Medieval Latin intentiōnālitās, equivalent to intentional ( def ) + -ity ( def )

But wouldn't it be wonderful if we could all live our lives with the intentionality that such a warning brings?

Through presence and intentionality, the nurse is able to know the other in his or her living and growing in caring.

The absolute principles of causality and substance, of intentionality and unity, unquestionably give us the absolute Being.

We are experiencing in the world-war a fearful balancing-up with the rational intentionality of organised culture.

That intentionality should be cultivated, I need not spend many words in explaining.

Here it is that "intentionality" and "consciousness" come in.

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