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nonvolitional

adj

Etymology

From non- + volitional.

  1. derived from *-tis✻
  2. derived from *welh₁-✻
  3. derived from volō
  4. derived from volitiō
  5. derived from volition
  6. suffixed as volitional — “volition + al”
  7. prefixed as nonvolitional — “non + volitional”

Definitions

  1. Not volitional

    Not volitional; not a matter of free choice.

    • The preference among an earlier generation of fat activists […] had been to regard fat as nonvolitional and to demand the majority's understanding, as opposed to an in-your-face defiance of social bodily controls.

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