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Another word for volition

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volition

n.

wish, will, conation, choice, election, preference; see also desire 1. See syn. study at will.

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Another word for volition

noun

The mental faculty by which one deliberately chooses or decides:

will. See willing

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The top opened of its own volition, revealing an aged stone dagger with dulled edges and a chipped stone hilt.
Her arms slid around his neck of their own volition and she pressed close to him passionately returning his affection.
The influence we seem to exercise over bodies by will is only apparent; volition and action only accompany one another.
Sudden, unpremeditated volition may be the earliest and the most artistic, but it is not the best.
Yet this primordial creative nature is endowed with volition with regard to its own development.

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