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intentness

[in-tent]

Origin

adjective

firmly or steadfastly fixed or directed, as the eyes or mind: an intent gaze.

having the attention sharply focused or fixed on something: intent on one's job.

determined or resolved; having the mind or will fixed on some goal: intent on revenge.

earnest; intense: an intent person.

Origin:
1600–10; < Latin intentus taut, intent, past participle of intendere to intend; compare intense

Related forms

in·tent·ly, adverb

in·tent·ness, noun

Synonyms
1, 2. concentrated. 3. resolute, set.

Antonyms
3. irresolute.

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World English Dictionary

intent (ɪnˈtɛnt)

—n
1.	something that is intended; aim; purpose; design
2.	the act of intending
3.	law the will or purpose with which one does an act
4.	implicit meaning; connotation
5.	to all intents and purposes for all practical purposes; virtually

—*adj*
6.	firmly fixed; determined; concentrated: an intent look
7.	(postpositive; usually foll by on or upon) having the fixed intention (of); directing one's mind or energy (to): intent on committing a crime

[C13 (in the sense: intention): from Late Latin intentus aim, intent, from Latin: a stretching out; see intend]

in'tently

—*adv*

in'tentness

—n

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Word Origin & History

intent

"very attentive," 1606, from L. intentus "attentive, eager, strained," pp. of intendere "to strain, stretch" (see intend).

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"The place became full of a watchful intentness now; for when other things sank brooding to sleep the heath appeared slowly to awake and listen. Every night its Titanic form seemed to await something; but it had waited thus, unmoved, during so many centuries, through the crises of so many things, that it could only be imagined to await one last crisis—the final overthrow."

-Thomas Hardy

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