Dictionary.com Thesaurus.com

intention movement

American

noun

Ethology.

behavior that is preparatory to another behavior, as a crouch before a leap.

Etymology

Origin of intention movement

First recorded in 1945–50

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.