misintention

English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ intention. Compare misintend.

Noun

misintention (plural misintentions)

1. A wrong intention.
   • 1914, Granville Stanley Hall, The Pedagogical seminary - Volume 21 - Page 508:

     If the person under consideration suffers error in the matter of his volitional activities he may be said to have misintcnded when his act of will turns out to be ill-advised. The act is called a misintention.

   • 1973, Kahlil Gibran, Andrew Dib Sherfan, A Third Treasury of Kahlil Gibran, published 2011:

     For instance, some psychological studies show that people who have had plenty of physical relations end up by hardly feeling any climax in intercourse. We also know that the failure of many marriages stems from an original misintention that the conjoints had about love.