misintention
misintention noun: a wrong intention.
Noun
misintention (plural misintentions)
- A wrong intention.
- If the person under consideration suffers error in the matter of his volitional activities he may be said to have misintcnded when his act of will turns out to be ill-advised. The act is called a misintention.1914, Granville Stanley Hall, The Pedagogical seminary - Volume 21 - Page 508
- For instance, some psychological studies show that people who have had plenty of physical relations end up by hardly feeling any climax in intercourse. We also know that the failure of many marriages stems from an original misintention that the conjoints had about love.1973, Kahlil Gibran, Andrew Dib Sherfan, A Third Treasury of Kahlil Gibran, published 2011
Forms of misintention
| plural | misintentions |
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Origin of misintention
From mis- + intention. Compare misintend.
Questions about misintention
- What does misintention mean?
- Misintention means a wrong intention.
- What part of speech is misintention?
- Misintention is a noun.
- What is the plural of misintention?
- The plural of misintention is misintentions.
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