volitional en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /vəˈlɪʃənəl/
- (Southern-England) audio
- /vɒˈlɪʃənəl/
Etymology
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.
Meanings
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(formal, not-comparable) Of or relating to the volition or will.
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.
1957, Leo Kanner, Child Psychology, 3rd edition, Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, Part Two, Chapter 4, p. 42:Little by little the whole subject population of the world was fitted with the instruments of volitional control. The government was now practically omnipotent.
1942, Olaf Stapledon, Darkness and the Light, chapter 5, iii:
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(comparable) 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.
1922 February 2, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC:“Loving on” someone—whether he likes it or not—posits love as a volitional activity, an act not of passion but of will.
2016 July 28, Rebecca Mead, “The Power of ‘Love’ in Politics”, in The New Yorker:
- (not-comparable, of an inflectional class or inflected form) Expressing intention, hortation, supposition, or inclusive invitation.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most volitional | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more volitional | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |
Deriveds
volitionalism · unvolitional · volitionally · postvolitional · avolitional · volitionalist · volitionality · prevolitional · sensori-volitional · nonvolitional
Synonyms
intentional · voluntary · tentative · deliberate (done by conscious choice) · hortative · conjectural · presumptive
Translations (8)
bg волеви (of or relating to the volition or will) · de willentlich (done by conscious, personal choice) · hu akaratlagos (done by conscious, personal choice) · es volicional (of or relating to the volition or will) · hu szándékos (done by conscious, personal choice) · es volitivo (grammar: expressing intention, hortation, supposition, or inclusive invitation) · es volitivo (of or relating to the volition or will) · hu akarati (of or relating to the volition or will)