Intentional. Done with premeditated design.

Comments:

Purposeful is also an idiom referring to a willing reaction to a given aggressive situation.

Purposeful is commonly used as a prefix for describing an intentional maneuver in reaction to any given aggressive situation.

Concepts that use this prefix are:

Purposeful Aggression

Purposeful Avoidance

Purposeful Compliance

Purposeful Dececption

Purposeful Defiance

Purposeful Deflection

Purposeful Interception

Purposeful Manipulation

This does not mean that there are no other terms that could be coined using this prefix. Just that these are the most commonly used terms.

A general understanding of one's response to a given situation is that either:

a)a maneuver is done because the practitioner intented to execute the maneuver (i.e. wanted to)

b)a maneuver is done because the practitioner was compelled to execute the maneuver (i.e. had to)

This definition directly relates to the first case - the practitioner wanted to execute the maneuver.

Example(s):

A concept that uses this as a prefix is Purposeful Omission

Synonym(s):

1)

Intentional

Opposite(s):

Compelled, Extemporaneous, Force, Spontaneous

Related Definition(s):

Attention, Intellectual, Intuitive

Related Term(s):

Common Sense, Conscious Mind, Environmental Awareness, Expanded Awareness, Mental Distraction, Mental Harmony, Mental Speed, Mind Overload, Purposeful Omission, Psychic Awareness, Psychic Combat Awareness, Psychic Reassurance, Purposeful Aggression, Purposeful Avoidance, Purposeful Compliance, Purposeful Dececption, Purposeful Defiance, Purposeful Deflection, Purposeful Interception, Purposeful Manipulation, Super Conscious Mind, State of Mind, Total Mental Harmony