Meanings
adjectivenonvolitional (not comparable)
- not comparableNot volitional; not a matter of free choice.
The preference among an earlier generation of fat activists […] had been to regard fat as nonvolitional and to demand the majority's understanding, as opposed to an in-your-face defiance of social bodily controls.
1996, Laura Kipnis, Bound and Gagged
Origin
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nonvolitional. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nonvolitional
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“nonvolitional.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nonvolitional. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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