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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
volition
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ It is something which must come essentially from ourselves, as a result of our own conscious volition.
▪ The court does not, of its own volition, enquire into the merits of the case.
▪ This action continues quite mechanically all the time, and entirely without our conscious choice or volition.
▪ What is needed is knowledge and volition.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Volition

Volition \Vo*li"tion\, n. [F., fr. L. volo I will, velle to will, be willing. See Voluntary.]

  1. The act of willing or choosing; the act of forming a purpose; the exercise of the will.

    Volition is the actual exercise of the power the mind has to order the consideration of any idea, or the forbearing to consider it.
    --Locke.

    Volition is an act of the mind, knowingly exerting that dominion it takes itself to have over any part of the man, by employing it in, or withholding it from, any particular action.
    --Locke.

  2. The result of an act or exercise of choosing or willing; a state of choice.

  3. The power of willing or determining; will.

    Syn: Will; choice; preference; determination; purpose.

    Usage: Volition, Choice. Choice is the familiar, and volition the scientific, term for the same state of the will; viz., an ``elective preference.'' When we have ``made up our minds'' (as we say) to a thing, i. e., have a settled state of choice respecting it, that state is called an immanent volition; when we put forth any particular act of choice, that act is called an emanent, or executive, or imperative, volition. When an immanent, or settled state of, choice, is one which controls or governs a series of actions, we call that state a predominant volition; while we give the name of subordinate volitions to those particular acts of choice which carry into effect the object sought for by the governing or ``predominant volition.'' See Will.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
volition

1610s, from French volition (16c.), from Medieval Latin volitionem (nominative volitio) "will, volition," noun of action from Latin stem (as in volo "I wish") of velle "to wish," from PIE root *wel- (2) "to wish, will" (see will (v.)). Related: Volitional.

Wiktionary
volition

n. 1 A conscious choice or decision. 2 The mental power or ability of choosing; the will.

WordNet
volition
  1. n. the capability of conscious choice and decision and intention; "the exercise of their volition we construe as revolt"- George Meredith [syn: will]

  2. the act of making a choice; "followed my father of my own volition" [syn: willing]

Wikipedia
Volition (psychology)

Volition or will is the cognitive process by which an individual decides on and commits to a particular course of action. It is defined as purposive striving and is one of the primary human psychological functions. Others include affection (affect or feeling), motivation (goals and expectations), and cognition (thinking). Volitional processes can be applied consciously or they can be automatized as habits over time.

Most modern conceptions of volition address it as a process of conscious action control which becomes automatized (e.g. see Heckhausen and Kuhl; Gollwitzer; Boekaerts and Corno).

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
  • as a proper name:
    • 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)
Volition (company)

Deep Silver Volition, LLC (formerly Volition, Inc., commonly referred to as Volition) is an American video game developer located in Champaign, Illinois. The company was created when Parallax Software was split into two companies, Volition and Outrage Entertainment, led by Mike Kulas and Matt Toschlog in November 1996.

Volition (As Hell Retreats album)

Volition is the second studio album from As Hell Retreats. Ain't No Grave Records released the album on July 26, 2011. As Hell Retreats worked with Brian Hood, in the production of this album.

Volition (linguistics)

In linguistics, volition is a concept that distinguishes whether the subject, or agent of a particular sentence intended an action or not. Simply, it is the intentional or unintentional nature of an action. Volition concerns the idea of control and for the purposes outside of psychology and cognitive science, is considered the same as intention in linguistics. Volition can then be expressed in a given language using a variety of possible methods. These sentence forms usually indicate that a given action has been done intentionally, or willingly. There are various ways of marking volition cross-linguistically. When using verbs of volition in English, like want or prefer, these verbs are not expressly marked. Other languages handle this with affixes, while others have complex structural consequences of volitional or non-volitional encoding.

Volition (album)

Volition is the fourth studio album by Canadian progressive metal band Protest the Hero released on October 29, 2013 through Razor & Tie. Volition marks the band's first record not to be released through Underground Operations or with any financial backing of label support. Instead, the entire album was funded by their fans via an Indiegogo campaign, where they met and exceeded their goal of $125,000 CAD.

The first album of the band to not feature its original lineup, it features Chris Adler from Lamb of God on drums after the departure of founding member Moe Carlson, who left the band prior to the recording process.

On October 16, due to the album being leaked, the band released the content early to contributors of their IndieGoGo campaign.

The album debuted at No. 20 on the Billboard 200 in the U.S.

Usage examples of "volition".

Her knees bent as if of their own volition, and in this way she knelt behind a pair of clerics robed in white and cloaked with the scarlet, floor-length capes that in the world below distinguished presbyters in the service of the skopos.

The inert, the immobile, given volition, movement, cognoscence -- thinking.

Almost simultaneously, with a mighty volition of ungraduated, instantaneous swiftness, the White Whale darted through the weltering sea.

There are those whose association I cannot avoid, such as Shamarr Dickin, but Master Jenner I trust of my own love and volition.

The admission of the gray nerve cells of the brain, as the material substratum through which sensations are received and volitions returned, does not exclude the necessity of a dynamical cause for the metamorphosing phenomenon.

A fessup had little more volition than dust, yet fury pent in its eddre gave it strength.

If the psychical totality of man consists of states of feeling, modes of volition, and powers of thought, not necessitating any spiritual entity in which they inhere, then, by parity of reasoning, the physical totality of man consists of states of nutrition, modes of absorption, and powers of change, implying no body in which these processes are effectuated!

Deryni would have crossed himself in ritualistic plea for deliverance, had control of physical function remained in his volition.

Without conscious volition Tirtha moved forward, brushing past the Falconer, her full attention claimed, as if she were indeed ensorceled by those shiny lines which spiraled, outward, becoming more and more distinct.

By condensing the content of observation and thinking into concepts and rules, or general experiences and principles, or ideals and general notions, apperception produces connection and order in our knowledge and volition.

In the case of the misseltoe, which draws its nourishment from certain trees, which has seeds that must be transported by certain birds, and which has flowers with separate sexes absolutely requiring the agency of certain insects to bring pollen from one flower to the other, it is equally preposterous to account for the structure of this parasite, with its relations to several distinct organic beings, by the effects of external conditions, or of habit, or of the volition of the plant itself.

He wills to move a palsied limb: the soul is unaffected by the paralysis, but the muscles refuse to obey his volition: the distinction between the person willing and the instrument to be wielded is unavoidable.

And as Routh recreated in himself the sense of a whole society with cruel hand outstretched and eager to pull the plug, terrifying hints of hidden and dangerous volitions rose up through his weak anger.

Freedom of the Will, is that volitions are themselves uncaused and are, therefore, alone fit to be the first or universal cause.

But, even assuming volitions to be uncaused, the properties of matter, so far as experience discloses, are uncaused also, and have the advantage over any particular volition, in being, so far as experience can show, eternal.