volitional
adj/vəˈlɪʃənəl/
Etymology
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Of or relating to the volition or will.
- Little by little the whole subject population of the world was fitted with the instruments of volitional control. The government was now practically omnipotent.
- Stern and Karl Bühler noticed independently that a child’s first “No” has a volitional meaning and that the significance as a simple denial of fact appears several months afterwards.
Done by conscious, personal choice
Done by conscious, personal choice; not based on external principles; not accidental.
- A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals to discovery.
- “Loving on” someone—whether he likes it or not—posits love as a volitional activity, an act not of passion but of will.
Expressing intention, hortation, supposition, or inclusive invitation.
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The volitional grammatical mood.
A form of a word inflected for the volitional mood
A form of a word inflected for the volitional mood; a volitional form.
The neighborhood
- synonymvoluntary
- synonymintentional
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