volitional

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English

Etymology

volition +‎ -al

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vɒˈlɪʃənəl/, ,

Adjective

volitional (comparative more volitional, superlative most volitional)

  1. (not comparable) Of or relating to the volition or will.
    • 1942, Olaf Stapledon, Darkness and the Light‎, chapter 5, iii:
      Little by little the whole subject population of the world was fitted with the instruments of volitional control. The government was now practically omnipotent.
    • 1957, Leo Kanner, Child Psychology‎, 3rd edition, Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, Part Two, Chapter 4, p. 42:
      Stern and Karl Bühler noticed independently that a child’s first “No” has a volitional meaning and that the significance as a simple denial of fact appears several months afterwards.
  2. (comparable) Done by conscious, personal choice; not based on external principles; not accidental.
  3. (grammar, not comparable, of an inflectional class or inflected form) Expressing intention, hortation, supposition, or inclusive invitation.
    Synonyms: conjectural, hortative, presumptive, tentative

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Noun

volitional (countable and uncountable, plural volitionals)
(grammar)

  1. (uncountable) The volitional grammatical mood.
  2. (countable) A form of a word inflected for the volitional mood; a volitional form.

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