A term originating with philosopher and psychologist Franz Brentano and popularized by Edmund Husserl, Intentionality is an essential component of Husserl’s Phenomenology. Used to mean something like “directedness” and “aboutness”, the intentional capacity is a description of the fact that consciousness is always conscious “of” something, a subject oriented towards a phenomenal object. This is more clearly articulated in the concept of Noesis and Noema.