volitional
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8.9
- adjective
- /vəˈlɪʃənl/
:
volitivo
- She made a volitional choice to pursue her passion for art instead of a safer career path.
- volitional control
- volitional effort
- volitional performance
If if you engage in volitional intercourse, then there are natural consequences to volitional intercourse.
- If if you engage in volitional intercourse, then there are natural consequences to volitional intercourse.
- They are to a certain respect, volitional.
- And which one we choose is going to stem from, again, our passion or volitional or nature, as he says.
- In other words, the interruption is below that they continue to breathe because the Centers for breathing don't require that volitional command.
Examples
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One must determine what part of the output is the desired, volitional control signal and what part is noise.
Academic text (1992) -
So volition, the volitional status of our consciousness, is really central to Rand's point of view.
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And it allows you to have not just rational decisions, but volitional decisions.
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The addition also allows the model to explain behaviors that may not be under individuals' volitional control.
Academic text (1997) -
For the purposes of this research, behavioral strategy was defined as any volitional action taken to prevent injury.
Academic text (2005) -
Apparently they're involved in volitional movement and other activities.
Fiction book (2001) -
For those offenders whose drug use is subject to their volitional control, testing-and-sanctions programs can reduce the frequency of drug use.
Academic text (2003) -
Data were tabulated to examine the differences between volitional and stimulated conditions for individual subjects.
Academic text (2001) -
Proust makes evident the futility of volitional memory as expressed in nostalgia.
Academic text (1999) -
There are three stages of self-regulation: forethought, performance/volitional control, and self-reflection.
Academic text (2012)
Synonyms
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3.7
Done on purpose with full awareness
125
4.1
Done on purpose after careful thought
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3.9
Done on purpose by a person, not without thinking
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5.1
A person who decides and acts on their own without being told
Relating to a person's will, desire, or effort to act
Antonyms
How Intentional
- Formal
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7.2
125
4.1
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8.9
117
3.9
- US
26
5.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
volitional = volition (transparent) = volit + ion + al
The adjective is regularly formed from 'volition' with '-al', meaning 'relating to volition or will'.
Etymology
Volitional comes from the old Latin root vol- meaning 'will' or 'wish', the same root you see in voluntary and volunteer. So a volitional action is one you do by your own choice or 'will', not something forced on you.