Synonyms of the word volition


VOLITIONCHOICE - FACULTY - MODULE - OPTION - PICK - SELECTION - WILL - WILLING

volition

  • n. A conscious choice or decision.
  • n. The mental power or ability of choosing; the will.
  • n. (linguistics) A concept that distinguishes whether or not the subject or agent intended something.

choice

  • n. An option; a decision; an opportunity to choose or select something.
  • n. One selection or preference; that which is chosen or decided; the outcome of a decision.
  • n. Anything that can be chosen.
  • n. (usually with the) The best or most preferable part.
  • n. (obsolete) Care and judgement in selecting; discrimination, selectiveness.
  • n. (obsolete) A sufficient number to choose among.
  • adj. Especially good or preferred.
  • adj. (slang, New Zealand) Cool; excellent.
  • adj. (obsolete) Careful in choosing; discriminating.

faculty

  • n. The scholarly staff at schools, colleges or universities, as opposed to the students or support staff.
  • n. A division of a university (e.g. a Faculty of Science or Faculty of Medicine).
  • n. An ability, skill, or power, often plural.
  • n. A power, authority or privilege conferred by a higher authority.

module

  • n. A self-contained component of a system, often interchangeable, which has a well-defined interface to the…
  • n. (architecture) A standard unit of measure used for determining the proportions of a building.
  • n. (computing) A section of a program; a subroutine or group of subroutines.
  • n. A unit of education covering a single topic.
  • n. A pre-prepared adventure scenario with related materials for a role-playing game.
  • n. (mathematics) An abelian group.
  • n. (mathematics) An algebraic structure which behaves just like a vector space over a field F, except that…
  • n. (fractal geometry, mathematics) A fractal element.
  • n. (computing) A file containing a music sequence that can be played in a tracker (called also mod or music…
  • n. (hydraulics) A contrivance for regulating the supply of water from an irrigation channel.
  • n. (astronautics) An independent self-contained unit of a spacecraft.

option

  • n. One of a set of choices that can be made.
  • n. The freedom or right to choose.
  • n. (finance, law) A contract giving the holder the right to buy or sell an asset at a set strike price; can…
  • n. (graphical user interface) A button on a screen used to select an action (often "menu option").
  • v. To purchase an option on something.
  • v. (computing, dated) To configure, by setting an option.

pick

  • n. A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
  • n. A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.
  • n. A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.
  • n. A choice; ability to choose.
  • n. That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.
  • n. (basketball) A screen.
  • n. (lacrosse) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
  • n. (American football) An interception.
  • n. (baseball) A good defensive play by an infielder.
  • n. (baseball) A pickoff.
  • n. (music) A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.
  • n. A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
  • n. (obsolete) A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.
  • n. (printing, dated) A particle of ink or paper embedded in the hollow of a letter, filling up its face,…
  • n. (art, painting) That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
  • n. (weaving) The blow that drives the shuttle, used in calculating the speed of a loom (in picks per minute);…
  • v. To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
  • v. To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached;…
  • v. To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.
  • v. To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.
  • v. To remove something from with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.
  • v. To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.
  • v. (cricket) To recognise the type of ball being bowled by a bowler by studying the position of the hand…
  • v. (music) To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.
  • v. To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc.
  • v. To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
  • v. To do anything nicely or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
  • v. To steal; to pilfer.
  • v. (obsolete) To throw; to pitch.
  • v. (dated) To peck at, as a bird with its beak; to strike at with anything pointed; to act upon with a pointed…
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.

selection

  • n. The process or act of selecting.
  • n. Something selected.
  • n. A variety of items taken from a larger collection.
  • n. A musical piece.
  • n. (databases) A set of data obtained from a database using a query.

will

  • v. (rare, transitive) To wish, desire (something).
  • v. (rare, intransitive) To wish or desire (that something happen); to intend (that).
  • v. (auxiliary) To habitually do (a given action).
  • v. (auxiliary) To choose to (do something), used to express intention but without any temporal connotations…
  • v. (auxiliary) Used to express the future tense, sometimes with some implication of volition when used in…
  • v. (auxiliary) To be able to, to have the capacity to.
  • n. One's independent faculty of choice; the ability to be able to exercise one's choice or intention.
  • n. One's intention or decision; someone's orders or commands.
  • n. The act of choosing to do something; a person’s conscious intent or volition.
  • n. A formal declaration of one's intent concerning the disposal of one's property and holdings after death;…
  • n. (archaic) That which is desired; one's wish.
  • n. (archaic) Desire, longing. (Now generally merged with later senses.).
  • v. (archaic) To wish, desire.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To instruct (that something be done) in one's will.
  • v. (transitive) To try to make (something) happen by using one's will (intention).
  • v. (transitive) To bequeath (something) to someone in one's will (legal document).

willing

  • adj. Ready to do something that is not (can't be expected as) a matter of course.
  • n. (rare or obsolete) The execution of a will.
  • v. present participle of will.

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