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nonvolitional en · ADJ

Etymology

From non- + volitional.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Not volitional; not a matter of free choice.
    • The preference among an earlier generation of fat activists […] had been to regard fat as nonvolitional and to demand the majority's understanding, as opposed to an in-your-face defiance of social bodily controls. 1996, Laura Kipnis, Bound and Gagged: