nonvoluntary

Examples

• All

• Some people voluntarily expose themselves to certain risks, such as smoking, while they consider other, nonvoluntary risks, such as exposure to drinking water that may contain trace contaminants, to be unacceptable.

  Academic text (1991)

• John Paul identifies more nonvoluntary, ideological influences that abet.

  Academic text (2010)

• Patient has nonvoluntary legal status at admission.

  Academic text (1994)

• Therefore, a distinction is made between these two nonvoluntary scenarios.

  Academic text (2001)

• Such nonvoluntary dimensions are directly related to structural reform.

  Academic text (2010)

• Given the nonvoluntary dimensions of social sin, "love and good will alone" are insufficient to expose sinful structures.

  Academic text (2010)

• The modern economics of crime and law enforcement emphasize the measurable, and hence observable, costs and benefits associated with nonvoluntary transactions.

  Academic text (1992)

• Whereas magisterial documents have emphasized the voluntary aspect of social sin, Latin American liberation theology has stressed its nonvoluntary dimensions.

  Academic text (2010)

• Second, although no distinctions were made in the underlying values when referring to the different case examples, participants did make a separation between two forms of nonvoluntary end-of-life decisions on the basis of their role in the decision.

  Academic text (2001)

• Nonetheless, her nonvoluntary movements are threatening Pauline's physical safety in precisely the same way that Bob's imperfectly voluntary actions are.

  Academic text (2001)

Synonyms

S

spontaneous

vsnonvoluntary

187 4.2

Happening naturally without planning or outside cause

focuses on absence of intentional control rather than natural occurrence

I

involuntary

vsnonvoluntary

73 5.4

Not done on purpose and not under a person's control

is the exact term for acts lacking intentional control or decision

U

unbidden

vsnonvoluntary

5 7.5

Happening on its own without being asked or wanted

stresses absence of conscious choice not just lack of invitation

U

uncommanded

vsnonvoluntary

8.1

Occurs without a person's control and not on purpose, like a sudden laugh

applies more generally to any act done without conscious decision

Antonyms

V

voluntary

• Specialized

11 3.9

Done on purpose by a person, not without thinking

How Voluntary

voluntary

• Specialized

11 3.9

nonvoluntary

8.0

involuntary

73 5.4

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology