Volition

Word VOLITION
Character 8
Hyphenation vo li tion
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Volition"

What do we mean by volition?

The act of making a conscious choice or decision. noun

The power or faculty of choosing; the will. noun

The act of willing; the exercise of the will. noun

The power of willing; will. noun

The act of willing or choosing; the act of forming a purpose; the exercise of the will. noun

The result of an act or exercise of choosing or willing; a state of choice. noun

The power of willing or determining; will. noun

A conscious choice or decision. noun

The mental power or ability of choosing; the will. noun

The act of making a choice noun

The capability of conscious choice and decision and intention noun

A conscious choice or decision.

The mental power or ability of choosing; the will.

A concept that distinguishes whether or not the subject or agent intended something.

Someone who is very cheap and will do anything to get something for free. Urban Dictionary

Politics related to a volunteer organization, often a volunteer fire department or ambulance service. Urban Dictionary

N. An idiot who does not know how to spell, especially the one who spells "violent" as "volite." Urban Dictionary

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To elect or vote, or a dumb YouTuber known as Volit Playz. Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Volition

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The word "volition" in example sentences

The basic action in this case is often called a volition, which is said to be the agent's willing, trying, or endeavoring to move a certain part of her body in a certain way. ❋ Clarke, Randolph (2008)

The actual exercise of that power, by directing any particular action, or its forbearance, is that which we call volition or willing. ❋ Unknown (2007)

It is true, there is a thing which we call volition, or an act of the mind; but this does not produce the external change by which it is followed. ❋ Albert Taylor Bledsoe (1843)

Libet didn't consider backwards referral in volition because antedating in his sensory experiments was pinned to the primary sensory EP, and no such marker existed in the spontaneous finger movement experiments. ❋ Unknown (2007)

If we call a volition in which consciousness of the self has played its part "volition proper," it still remains to inquire how volitions on a lower plane are to be distinguished from mere desires. ❋ George Stuart Fullerton (N/A)

But as for my sweet Babbie, her volition is not yet adequate to breaking the pack-threads of the Lilliputians, never to speak of cords of the Philistines. ❋ Unknown (1883)

The difficulty is to use it, to make the effort which the word volition implies. ❋ William James (1876)

But if we once clearly perceive that what in a relative sense we know as volition is, in a similar sense, the cause of bodily movement, we terminate the question touching the freedom of the will. ❋ George John Romanes (1871)

The Duke of Argyll may not be aware of the fact, but it is nevertheless true, that when a man's arm is raised, in sequence to that state of consciousness we call a volition, the volition is not the immediate cause of the elevation of the arm. ❋ Thomas Henry Huxley (1860)

It is probable, that this twofold use of the word volition in all languages has confounded the metaphysicians, who have disputed about free will and necessity. ❋ Erasmus Darwin (1766)

Whereas in this work the word volition means simply the active state of the sensorial faculty in producing motion in consequence of desire or aversion: whether we have the power of restraining that action, or not; that is, whether we exert any actions in consequence of opposite desires or aversions, or not. ❋ Erasmus Darwin (1766)

In this case it is evident, that we have a power to delay the proposed action, or to perform it; and this power of choosing, whether we shall act or not, is in common language expressed by the word volition, or will. ❋ Erasmus Darwin (1766)

Before we commence this Section on Diseased Voluntary Motions, it may be necessary to premise, that the word volition is not used in this work exactly in its common acceptation. ❋ Erasmus Darwin (1766)

In our sleep as the power of volition is suspended, and consequently that of reason, when any incongruous ideas occur in the trains of imagination, which compose our dreams; we cannot compare them with our previous knowledge of nature and reject them; whence arises the perpetual inconsistency of our sleeping trains of ideas; and whence in our dreams we never feel the sentiment of novelty; however different the ideas, which present themselves, may be from the usual course of nature. ❋ Unknown (1803)

"attained that realization of any substantial objective existence - as for example, God, or Law - in which the interest of man's volition is involved and in which he realizes his own being". ❋ Unknown (1986)

The thing to remember about this Jag — or indeed any six-figure high-performance sedan, where cost is no longer a constraining factor — is that the way it drives is almost purely a matter of volition, which is to say, a matter of the designers' and engineers' choice. ❋ Dan Neil (2010)

Jaguar The thing to remember about this Jag is that the way it drives is almost purely a matter of volition, which is to say, a matter of the designers ' and engineers ' choice. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Every human action is caused by the person's volition, which is caused by a certain motive ❋ Unknown (2009)

A good will is not good because of what it effects or accomplishes, because of its fitness to attain some proposed end, but only because of its volition, that is, it is good in itself ¦ ❋ Nelkin, Dana K. (2008)

Person A: [Wanna go] to [a free] movie? Person B: What movie? Person A: [Who cares] it is free? Person B: Man, you are so volition. ❋ Peter Sanderson (2007)

At the last [department meeting], we discussed changing the color of [the garage] doors for an hour. [I'm fed up with] the volitics. ❋ 3-16-0 (2013)

[What a] volite! He can't [spell] any three-letter [word]. ❋ Kev-man (2008)

[yo u] listen to [v for volition] [that shit] was the start of something ❋ Son Gohan The Super Saya Jin (2022)

[Volit] [Joe Biden] for [President]! ❋ Volit Playz (2021)

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