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Incentive vs Intentive - What's the difference?

incentive | intentive |

As a verb incentive

is .

As an adjective intentive is

paying attention; attentive, heedful.

incentive

English

(wikipedia incentive)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Something that motivates, rouses, or encourages.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
    • , volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Fantasy of navigation , passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].}}
  • A bonus or reward, often monetary, to work harder.

    • Antonyms

    * disincentive

    Derived terms

    * incentivise/incentivize, tax incentive

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Inciting; encouraging or moving; rousing to action; stimulating.
  • * Dr. H. More
    • Competency is the most incentive to industry.
  • Serving to kindle or set on fire.
  • * Milton
    • Part incentive reed / Provide, pernicious with one touch of fire.

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    intentive

    English

    Alternative forms

    * ententive

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Paying attention; attentive, heedful.
  • Intent (of the mind, thoughts etc.).
  • *1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.9:
  • *:To which whilest she lent her intentive mind, / He suddenly his net upon her threw […].
  • (grammar) Expressing intent.

    • See also

    * intensive ----