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1. An anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions
   "his intent was to provide a new translation"
   - purpose, intention, aim, design
    
2. The intended meaning of a communication
   - purport, spirit

1. Giving or marked by complete attention to
   "so intent on this fantastic...narrative that she hardly stirred"
   - captive, absorbed, engrossed, enwrapped, wrapped

Derived forms: intents

See also: attentive, intend, intently, intentness

Type of: end, goal, import, meaning, significance, signification

Encyclopedia: Intent