Motive vs. Intention

Motivenoun

(obsolete) An idea or communication that makes one want to act, especially from spiritual sources; a divine prompting.

Motivenoun

An incentive to act in a particular way; a reason or emotion that makes one want to do something; anything that prompts a choice of action.

Motivenoun

A limb or other bodily organ that can move.

Motivenoun

(legal) Something which causes someone to want to commit a crime; a reason for criminal behaviour.

Motivenoun

A motif.

Motivenoun

(music) A motif; a theme or subject, especially one that is central to the work or often repeated.

Motiveverb

(transitive) To prompt or incite by a motive or motives; to move.

Motiveadjective

Causing motion; having power to move, or tending to move

Motiveadjective

Relating to motion and/or to its cause

Motivenoun

That which moves; a mover.

Motivenoun

That which incites to action; anything prompting or exciting to choise, or moving the will; cause; reason; inducement; object; motivation{2}.

Motivenoun

The theme or subject; a leading phrase or passage which is reproduced and varied through the course of a comor a movement; a short figure, or melodic germ, out of which a whole movement is develpoed. See also Leading motive, under Leading.

Motivenoun

That which produces conception, invention, or creation in the mind of the artist in undertaking his subject; the guiding or controlling idea manifested in a work of art, or any part of one.

Motiveadjective

Causing motion; having power to move, or tending to move; as, a motive argument; motive power.

Motiveverb

To prompt or incite by a motive or motives; to move.

Motivenoun

the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior;

Motivenoun

a theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music

Motiveadjective

causing or able to cause motion;

Motiveadjective

impelling to action;

Intentionnoun

The goal or purpose behind a specific action or set of actions.

Intentionnoun

(obsolete) Tension; straining, stretching.

Intentionnoun

A stretching or bending of the mind toward an object; closeness of application; fixedness of attention; earnestness.

Intentionnoun

(obsolete) The object toward which the thoughts are directed; end; aim.

Intentionnoun

(obsolete) Any mental apprehension of an object.

Intentionnoun

(medicine) The process of the healing of a wound.

Intentionverb

Intend

Intentionnoun

A stretching or bending of the mind toward an object; closeness of application; fixedness of attention; earnestness.

Intentionnoun

A determination to act in a certain way or to do a certain thing; purpose; design; as, an intention to go to New York.

Intentionnoun

The object toward which the thoughts are directed; end; aim.

Intentionnoun

The state of being strained. See Intension.

Intentionnoun

Any mental apprehension of an object.

Intentionnoun

an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions;

Intentionnoun

(usually plural) the goal with respect to a marriage proposal;

Intentionnoun

an act of intending; a volition that you intend to carry out;

Intentionnoun

a thing intended; an aim or plan

Intentionnoun

the action or fact of intending

Intentionnoun

a person's plans, especially a man's, in respect to marriage

Intentionnoun

the healing process of a wound.

Intentionnoun

conceptions formed by directing the mind towards an object.

Intention

Intention is a mental state that represents a commitment to carrying out an action or actions in the future. Intention involves mental activities such as planning and forethought.