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volitional
- /vəˈlɪʃənəl/
- /vɒˈlɪʃənəl/
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Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *welh₁-der.
Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁-influ.
Proto-Italic *welō
Latin volō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Medieval Latin volitiōbor.
French volitionder.
English volition
English -al
English volitional
From volition + -al.
adjective more volitional · most volitional
- Of or relating to the volition or will. Little by little the whole subject population of the world was fitted with the instruments of volitional control. The government was now practically omnipotent.
- Done by conscious, personal choice; not based on external principles; not accidental. A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals to discovery.
- Expressing intention, hortation, supposition, or inclusive invitation.
Similar: voluntary, intentional
noun volitionals
- The volitional grammatical mood.
- A form of a word inflected for the volitional mood; a volitional form.
