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antivolition en · NOUN

Etymology

From anti- + volition.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The desire not to do something.
    • Even the one firm wish of his life—staying on in the boarding house—could be seen as antivolition, another passive move. 2013, Jordi Punti, Lost Luggage, page 353:
    • Here the irritation first produces a volition to wink, which by habit becomes stronger than the antivolition not to wink. 1801, Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia; Or, The Laws of Organic Life: In Four Volumes, page 233: