volition
volition Lexical Profile
volition Game Scores & Validity
• noun
The faculty or power of using one's will to make conscious choices and decisions.
"She resigned from the committee entirely of her own volition, without any pressure from the board."
A specific act of willing, choosing, or resolving upon a course of action.
"Philosophers have long debated how an internal mental volition translates into physical bodily movement."
Word Nuance & Usage
In contemporary English, 'volition' is almost exclusively encountered in the fixed prepositional phrase 'of one's own volition' (meaning 'by one's own free choice' or 'voluntarily'), outside of technical discussions in psychology, philosophy, and law.
• Rhymes for volition
Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the early 17th century from French 'volition' or Medieval Latin 'volitio', derived from the Latin verb 'velle' ('to wish' or 'to will'), which shares the same Indo-European root as the English word 'will'.