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Creation vs Intention - What's the difference?

creation | intention |

As nouns the difference between creation and intention

is that creation is creation while intention is a course of action that a person intends to follow.

creation

English

Noun

  • (countable) Something created such as an invention or artwork.
    • I think the manufacturer was so ashamed of its creation that it didn't put its name on it!
  • (uncountable) The act of creating something.
    • The restructure resulted in the creation of a number of shared services.
  • (uncountable) All which exists.
    • Let us pray to Christ, the King of all creation .

    Derived terms

    * cocreation, co-creation

    Related terms

    * creatability * creatable * creatableness * creational * creationally * creationarily * creationary * creationism * creationist * creationistic * creationistically * creation science * creative * creatively * creativeness * creativity * create * Creator, creator * creatorship * creatress * creatrix * creatural * creaturally * creature * creature comforts * creaturely * creatureliness

    Anagrams

    * English words suffixed with -tion

    intention

    English

    (wikipedia intention)

    Alternative forms

    * entention (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A course of action that a person intends to follow.
  • :
  • *(Samuel Johnson) (1709-1784) (but see Apocryhpha )
  • *:Hell is paved with good intentions .
  • *
  • *:“My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”
  • *{{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild
    • , title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=3 , passage=It had been his intention to go to Wimbledon, but as he himself said: “Why be blooming well frizzled when you can hear all the results over the wireless. And results are all that concern me.
  • The goal or purpose behind a specific action or set of actions.
  • :
  • (lb) Tension; straining, stretching.
  • *, I.iii.3:
  • *:cold in those inner parts, cold belly, and hot liver, causeth crudity, and intention proceeds from perturbations […].
  • A stretching or bending of the mind toward of the mind toward an object; closeness of application; fixedness of attention; earnestness.
  • *(John Locke) (1632-1705)
  • *:Intention is when the mind, with great earnestness, and of choice, fixes its view on any idea.
  • (lb) The object toward which the thoughts are directed; end; aim.
  • *1732 , (John Arbuthnot), An Essay Concerning the Nature of Ailments … , Prop. II, p.159:
  • *:In a Word, the most part of chronical Distempers proceed from Laxity of Fibres; in which Case the principal Intention is to restore the Tone of the solid Parts;.
  • (lb) Any mental apprehension of an object.
  • (lb) The process of the healing of a wound.
  • *2007 , Carie Ann Braun, ?Cindy Miller Anderson, Pathophysiology: Functional Alterations in Human Health , p.49:
  • *:When healing occurs by primary intention , the wound is basically closed with all areas of the wound connecting and healing simultaneously.
    • (Webster 1913)

    Derived terms

    * intentional * the road to hell is paved with good intentions * well-intentioned

    Related terms

    * intend * intent * well-intended