volition
pronunciation
How to pronounce volition in British English:
UK [vəˈlɪʃn]
How to pronounce volition in American English:
US [vəˈlɪʃən]
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- Noun:
- the capability of conscious choice and decision and intention
- the act of making a choice
Word Origin
- volition
- volition: [17] Volition comes via French volition from medieval Latin volitiō, a noun derived from Latin volō ‘I will’. Together with English will, this went back ultimately to Indo-European *wel-, *wol- ‘be pleasing’, which also produced English volunteer and voluptuous.=> voluntary, volunteer, voluptuous, will
- volition (n.)
- 1610s, from French volition (16c.), from Medieval Latin volitionem (nominative volitio) "will, volition," noun of action from Latin stem (as in volo "I wish") of velle "to wish," from PIE root *wel- (2) "to wish, will" (see will (v.)). Related: Volitional.
Example
- 1. All talk about consciousness volition and aiming at ends is empty .
- 2. The latter is the instinct of the good to fulfil the same the practical activity of the idea , or volition .
- 3. Noise that we 're blasting into our brains by our own volition .
- 4. We perceive something in the world that we want and we have the power of volition to get it ; likewise , we have the power to avoid the things we don 't want .
- 5. One of the key factors , says bloom , is the fact that our brains have separate cognitive systems for dealing with living things - things with minds , or at least volition - and inanimate objects .