Synonyms for volition
voʊˈlɪʃ ən, və-vo·li·tion

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1. volition

   Synonyms:
   will, choice, preference, determination, purpose, deliberation, freewill

   Antonyms:
   force, fate, necessity, mechanism, compulsion, predestination, coercion

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1. volition, willnoun

   the capability of conscious choice and decision and intention

   "the exercise of their volition we construe as revolt"- George Meredith

   Synonyms:
   will, testament, willing

2. volition, willingnoun

   the act of making a choice

   "followed my father of my own volition"

   Synonyms:
   will, willing

Matched Categories

1. • Choice
   • Faculty

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1. exercise of the will

   an act of will; the act of executing the will

   no-one asked him to do the extra work, he did it all of his own volition.

   Submitted by rinat on February 16, 2016  

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1. volitionnoun

   Synonyms:
   willing, exercise of the will

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1. List of paraphrases for "volition":

   willingness

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1. List of known nicknames for "Volition":

   Devon Williams

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1. Qube Chairman Chris Corrigan:

   You do require the container terminal operators to service rail in an intelligent fashion. They'll do that either at their own volition or they'll be told to do it by government, it's more of a 'steady-as-she-goes' type of proposal from Brookfield.

2. Thomas Breen:

   That execution of that 9-year-old boy has to come from one singularly evil person, not from a plan. His killer did so of his own volition and for his own reason. Not at the behest or help of Corey Morgan.

3. Joe Conlon:

   Down in Central and South America, they’re using these thermal foggers— that can work and knock down the mosquito, but in the U.S, they’re not going to allow federal and state folks to allow them into their homes to do that, it’s not something that mosquito abatement will do, but public pressure may make them do that. People might demand something like that of their own volition.

4. Jean-Jacques Rousseau:

   There is no subjugation so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom for in that way one captures volition itself.

5. Samuel Taylor Coleridge:

   My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.