volition
nounEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *welh₁-der. Proto-Italic *welō Latin volō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Medieval Latin volitiōbor. French volitionder. English volition From French volition, from Medieval Latin volitiō (“will, volition”), from Latin volō (“to wish; to want; to mean or intend”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁- (“to choose; to want”)) + -tiō (suffix forming nouns relating to some action or the result of an action) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *-tis (suffix forming abstract or action nouns from verbs)).
Definitions
A conscious choice or decision.
- [Antonio] Conte has broken the mould further with the suggestion he might escape the [Roman] Abramovich cleaver, becoming the first of his line to leave by his own volition.
The mental power or ability of choosing
The mental power or ability of choosing; the will.
- Out of all the factors that can influence a person’s decision, none can match the power of his or her own volition.
- The volition may be in accordance with the desire or not; it may be in accordance with the moral feelings, and wholly at variance with the desires; but in both alike the desires and volitions are distinct.
A concept that distinguishes whether or not the subject or agent intended something.
The neighborhood
- neighborvoluntarism
- neighborvoluntarist
- neighborvolunteer
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for volition. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA