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intención, noun
intention; meaning

Intención in its most general sense means intention.

Es un libro repleto de buenas intenciones.
It's a book full of good intentions.

The phrase tener intención de hacer is the basic way of saying to intend to do something, or to mean to do something:

Después de su gira tenía intención de descansar.
After his tour he intended to rest.

No tenía intención de ofenderte.
I didn't mean to offend you.

The phrase segunda intención means ulterior motive, as in:

No lo dijo con segundas intenciones.
There was no ulterior motive in what he said.

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