Crossword clues for intentness
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.
Wiktionary
n. The condition of being intent.
WordNet
n. the quality of being intent and concentrated; "the intentness of his gaze" [syn: engrossment]
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.