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What (who) is volition - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Volition (disambiguation); Volitional; Volition (album)
volition
1.
Your volition is the power you have to decide something for yourself. (FORMAL)
We like to think that everything we do and everything we think is a product of our volition...
= free will
N-UNCOUNT
2.
If you do something of your own volition, you do it because you have decided for yourself that you will do it and not because someone else has told you to do it. (FORMAL)
Makin said Mr Coombes had gone to the police of his own volition.
= voluntarily
PHRASE: PHR after v
volition
n.
act of choosing
of, on one's own volition (they agreed of their own volition; to act on one's own volition)
Volition
·noun The power of willing or determining; will.
II. Volition ·noun The result of an act or exercise of choosing or willing; a state of choice.
III. Volition ·noun The act of willing or choosing; the act of forming a purpose; the exercise of the will.
Wikipedia
Volition
Volition may refer to:
- Volition (psychology), the process of making and acting on decisions
- Coherent Extrapolated Volition, hypothetical choices and the actions collectively taken with more knowledge and ability
- Volition (linguistics), a distinction to express whether the subject intended the action or not
- Volition (company), a video game developer known for the Saints Row and Red Faction series
- Volition Records, a record label
- Volition (Protest the Hero album), 2013
- Volition (As Hell Retreats album), 2011
- Volition (film), 2019 science fiction film
Examples of use of volition
1. He was there entirely of his own volition," he said.
2. They had gone, it seemed, entirely of their own volition.
3. It left very little volition for everyone, making consumption a need, not just a want.
4. Blair will never go of his own volition, he loves the power.
5. Many workers agreed to leave of their own volition after being promised they would be paid.