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The quality of being intent and concentrated
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intentness
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Intentness \In*tent"ness\, n. The state or quality of being intent; close application; attention. Extreme solicitude or intentness upon business. --South.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the quality of being intent and concentrated; "the intentness of his gaze" [syn: engrossment ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The condition of being intent.
Usage examples of intentness.
He looked at Merrie, but from her intentness of attitude he might have been in New Guinea.
He surveyed the carved front and low-browed lattices, the straggling gooseberry-bushes and crooked firs, with solemn intentness, and then shook his head: his private feelings entirely disapproved of the exterior of his new abode.
On that occasion she observed a man in a singular guise, watching her in the distance, with an intentness that induced her to inquire into his pursuits and character.
But the doctor was studying, with grave intentness, a stencilled pattern on the chancel roof.
And by the intentness of Fumita's gaze, he had not come just to honor the funeral pyre of a departed brother.
Rat, who was in the stern of the boat, while Mole sculled, sat up suddenly and listened with a passionate intentness.