volitional

English

volitional (comparative more volitional, superlative most volitional)

Of or relating to the volition or will.
- 1942, Olaf Stapledon, Darkness and the Light, Chapter 5, iii,
  Little by little the whole subject population of the world was fitted with the instruments of volitional control. The government was now practically omnipotent.
- 1957, Leo Kanner, Child Psychology, Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, 3rd edition, Part Two, Chapter 4, p. 42,
  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.
Done by conscious, personal choice; not based on external principles; not accidental.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, London: The Egoist Press, p. 182,
  A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals to discovery.
- 2016, Rebecca Mead, “The Power of ‘Love’ in Politics,” The New Yorker, 28 July, 2016,
  “Loving on” someone—whether he likes it or not—posits love as a volitional activity, an act not of passion but of will.

done by conscious, personal choice

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