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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. This law is, that the intension of our knowledge is in the inverse ratio

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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. This law is, that the intension of our knowledge is in the inverse ratio of its extension. Sir W. Hamilton. (more info) 1. A straining, stretching, or bending; the state of being strained; as, the intension of a musical string. 2. Increase of power or energy of any quality or thing; intenseness; fervency. Jer. Taylor. Sounds . . . likewise do rise and fall with the intension or remission of the wind. Bacon.

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• RATIOCINATE
  To reason, esp. deductively; to offer reason or argument.
• COLLECTIVENESS
  A state of union; mass.
• CONTENTMENT
  1. The state of being contented or satisfied; content. Contentment without external honor is humility. Grew. Godliness with contentment is great gain. 1 Tim. vi. 6. 2. The act or process of contenting or satisfying; as, the contentment of avarice
• RATIONALIZATION
  The act or process of rationalizing.
• CONTENTLY
  In a contented manner.
• OPPOSABILITY
  The condition or quality of being opposable. In no savage have I ever seen the slightest approach to opposability of the great toe, which is the essential distinguishing feature of apes. A. R. Wallace.
• RATIONALISTIC; RATIONALISTICAL
  Belonging to, or in accordance with, the principles of rationalism. -- Ra`tion*al*is"tic*al*ly, adv.
• INTENSION
  The collective attributes, qualities, or marks that make up a complex general notion; the comprehension, content, or connotation; - - opposed to extension, extent, or sphere. This law is, that the intension of our knowledge is in the inverse ratio
• RATIOCINATION
  The process of reasoning, or deducing conclusions from premises; deductive reasoning.
• GENERALIZED
  Comprising structural characters which are separated in more specialized forms; synthetic; as, a generalized type.
• GENERALIZABLE
  Capable of being generalized, or reduced to a general form of statement, or brought under a general rule. Extreme cases are . . . not generalizable. Coleridge
• OPPOSITIONIST
  One who belongs to the opposition party. Praed.
• CONTENTIOUS
  Contested; litigated; litigious; having power to decide controversy. Contentious jurisdiction , jurisdiction over matters in controversy between parties, in contradistinction to voluntary jurisdiction, or that exercised upon matters not opposed
• COLLECTIVELY
  In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly.
• RATION
  1. A fixed daily allowance of provisions assigned to a soldier in the army, or a sailor in the navy, for his subsistence. Note: Officers have several rations, the number varying according to their rank or the number of their attendants. 2. Hence,
• GENERALTY
  Generality. Sir M. Hale.
• OPPOSITIVE
  Capable of being put in opposition. Bp. Hall.
• COMPLEXIONALLY
  Constitutionally. Though corruptible, not complexionally vicious. Burke.
• OPPOSELESS
  Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible. "Your great opposeless wills." Shak.
• NOTIONATE
  Notional.
• MIGRATION
  The act of migrating.
• MAJOR GENERAL
  . An officer of the army holding a rank next above that of brigadier general and next below that of lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or a corps.
• PREKNOWLEDGE
  Prior knowledge.
• COMMISERATION
  The act of commiserating; sorrow for the wants, afflictions, or distresses of another; pity; compassion. And pluck commiseration of his state From brassy bosoms and rough hearts of flint. Shak. Syn. -- See Sympathy.
• DEDECORATION
  Disgrace; dishonor. Bailey.
• INCARCERATION
  1. The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment. Glanvill. Formerly, strangulation, as in hernia. A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation.
• EXULCERATION
  1. Ulceration. Quincy. 2. A fretting; a festering; soreness. Hooker.
• IMPREPARATION
  Want of preparation. Hooker.
• IRRATIONAL
  Not capable of being exactly expressed by an integral number, or by a vulgar fraction; surd; -- said especially of roots. See Surd. Syn. -- Absurd; foolish; preposterous; unreasonable; senseless. See Absurd. (more info) 1. Not rational; void of
• REVERBERATION
  The act of reverberating; especially, the act of reflecting light or heat, or reëchoing sound; as, the reverberation of rays from a mirror; the reverberation of rays from a mirror; the reverberation of voices; the reverberation of heat or flame
• ELABORATION
  The natural process of formation or assimilation, performed by the living organs in animals and vegetables, by which a crude substance is changed into something of a higher order; as, the elaboration of food into chyme; the elaboration of chyle,
• REMONSTRATION
  The act of remonstrating; remonstrance. Todd.
• FISSURATION
  The act of dividing or opening; the state of being fissured.