the.com/intent
The thing courts, lovers, and search engines all desperately try to read between the lines.
means The purpose or plan behind an action — what someone meant to do, regardless of what actually happened.
from From Latin 'intendere' — literally 'to stretch toward' (in- 'toward' + tendere 'to stretch'), the same root that gives us 'tend' and 'tension.' The image is of a bow being drawn, aim stretched toward a target before the arrow ever flies — intent is the aiming, not the hit.
- legal weight
- often matters more than the act itself
- google's version
- guesses what you want, not what you typed
- romance trap
- texting without it still breaks hearts
- proof problem
- invisible, so everyone infers it badly