[responsivevoice] volition [/responsivevoice] [ voh-lish-uhn ]
The word of the day is ‘volition’
The word is a noun, i.e., it is the main subject of a sentence.
No, the word is a noun. Therefore, it does not have a past form.
It means:
1. Free will
2. The faculty or power of using one’s will.
3. Desire
4. Pleasure
1. Hindi – Ichchhaashakti
2. Spanish – Voluntad
3. French – Volition
4. Mandarin – Zìyuàn xìng
1. It seemed to have a vast inorganic life of its own, volition and a whim.
2. A volition is surely an act of the mind, with which we are sufficiently acquainted.
3. Without conscious volition, she backed into her office
4. “This self-imposed exile was a conscious act of volition”.
5. She opened the outer door, and Mattie had no volition but to go.
accord, choice, desire, determination, discretion, election, option, preference, purpose, resolution, selection, will, willingness, wish, choosing, conation, option, freewill etc
Some antonyms of the word are:
antagonism, aversion, dislike, hate, hatred, refusal, rejection, necessity, coercion, obligation, duress, enforcement, influence, obsession, requisite
Quotation:
What part of people is resistant to an artist doing more than one thing? Is it somehow perceived as greedy? Anyone who has that weird volition to become an actor probably has a weird volition to do lots of other creative things – to write, to play music, to paint, to cook.
Minnie Driver
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