Meanings
- formalnot comparableWillingly or decidedly; in a volitional or willed way.
The people in all of these examples use attention volitionally
1998, Richard B. Ivry, The Two Sides of Perception, page 1232 more examples
If, on the other hand, the external impression be also felt, then the mind, according to its psychological laws, connects volitionally with it many other conceptions, the internal impressions of which can produce through the motor nerves such sentient actions as the unfelt external impression could not have developed at all, or, at least, not in combination with the will of the animal.
1851, Johann August Unzer, The Principles of physiology, page 201Must a person endorse, be satisfied with, or at least fail to feel alienated from what is volitionally necessary and what is inescapable if these are to be included within her self-conception?
2005, John Christman, Autonomy and the Challenges to Liberalism: New Essays, page 86
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbin a willing manner
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*welh₁-
- Proto-Indo-European*weyh₁-influ.
- Proto-Italic*welō
- Latinvolō
- Medieval Latinvolitiō
- Frenchvolition
- Englishvolition
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
- Englishvolitional
- Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
- Proto-Germanic*līką
- Englishvolitionally
From volitional + -ly.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Spanish volicionalmente
- volicionalmentewillingly or decidedly; in a volitional or willed way
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