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What is the adjective for volition?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs volunteer and voluntell which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

voluntary
  1. Done, given, or acting of one's own free will.
  2. Done by design or intention; intentional.
  3. Working or done without payment.
  4. Endowed with the power of willing.
  5. Of or relating to voluntarism.
  6. Synonyms:
  7. Examples:
    1. “In Sweden, 24 percent of the respondents said they did voluntary work for religious or church organizations.”
      “The government insisted that this was a voluntary initiative.”
      “This choice is entirely voluntary. No one is coerced into following this rule.”
involuntary
  1. Without intention; unintentional.
  2. Not voluntary or willing; contrary or opposed to explicit will or desire; unwilling.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Her involuntary reflexes kicked in, and she threw out her arms, managing to break his fall.”
      “It mandates a form of involuntary servitude expressly prohibited by the 13th amendment to the US Constitution.”
      “He grinned and picked me up, sending a jolt of surprise through me and making me let out an involuntary shriek of laughter.”
volitional
  1. Of or relating to the volition or will.
  2. Done by conscious, personal choice; not based on external principles; not accidental.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “The suspension of this tonic tic by volitional effort accentuates its distinction from contracture.”
      “It therefore includes both cognitive and volitional deficiencies, and places the insanity verdict more squarely on the ground of incapacity.”
      “The yellow circle is the volitional part, which is separating itself from the unvolitional part.”
voluntaryistic
  1. Of or relating to voluntaryism or voluntaryist society.
voluntaristic
  1. Pertaining to voluntary activity; supporting or promoting voluntarism.
  2. Examples:
    1. “By the nineteenth century, there were a number of associational outlets that might foster a voluntaristic political spirit among women.”
      “The renewal of virtue ethics, especially in North America, promises a way beyond a voluntaristic morality.”
      “This instrumental conceptualization of hierarchy is tied with a voluntaristic view of authority.”
volunteeristic
  1. Of or related to volunteerism; done on volunteer basis.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The dominant mode of functioning was volunteeristic and supportive of current practice, but activists could carve out space for their agendas within the limits of the forum.”
volitionless
  1. Lacking volition.
voluntariest
  1. superlative form of voluntary: most voluntary
volunteered
  1. simple past tense and past participle of volunteer
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “By some accounts, in fact, those who had planted gardens sometimes confronted an excessive amount of volunteered help from people who had not planted gardens of their own.”
volunteering
voluntold
voluntelling
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