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What is the noun for involuntariness?

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volunteer
  1. One who enters into, or offers for, any service of his/her own free will, especially when done without pay.
  2. (military) One who enters into military service voluntarily, but who, when in service, is subject to discipline and regulations like other soldiers; -- opposed to conscript; specifically, a voluntary member of the organized militia of a country as distinguished from the standing army.
  3. (law) A person who acts out of his own will without a legal obligation, such as a donor.
  4. (botany) A plant that grows spontaneously, without being cultivated on purpose; see volunteer plant in Wikipedia.
  5. A native or resident of the American state of Tennessee.
  6. Synonyms:
  7. Examples:
    1. “We have found a volunteer to help us clean up this pigsty.”
      “I need a volunteer for a medical experiment that I'm conducting.”
voluntarism
  1. (US) A reliance on volunteers to support an institution or achieve an end; volunteerism.
  2. (philosophy) A doctrine that assigns the most dominant position to the will rather than the intellect.
  3. (politics) The political theory that a community is best organized by the voluntary cooperation of individuals, rather than by a government, which is regarded as being coercive by nature.
  4. Examples:
    1. “Women's groups draw on voluntarism and self-financing to manage a social relationship with inherent demands and limits.”
      “More recently, different groups have encouraged a spirit of voluntarism and giving among staff, faculty, and students.”
      “He grabbed power in a civil war, not a revolution, and advocated voluntarism and cadres to force Socialism rather than evolve it.”
volition
  1. A conscious choice or decision. [from early 17th c.]
  2. The mental power or ability of choosing; the will.
  3. (linguistics) A concept that distinguishes whether or not the subject or agent intended something.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “Conversely, the man of strong character is said to act according to his own volition and not under the influence of desire.”
      “But he erroneously confounds appetency and volition together as the same functions of one power.”
      “He was a free party to this negotiation and entered into the agreement of his own free volition.”
volunteerism
  1. (US) Reliance on volunteers to perform a social or educational function.
  2. The tendency to volunteer; the activity of volunteering.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Most have a rich history of women's involvement through patronage, management and volunteerism.”
      “It was disappointing to read recent articles which highlighted the decline of volunteerism in community activities.”
      “On a smaller scale, there is a movement within the hip-hop community towards public service and volunteerism.”
voluntary
involuntariness
  1. The state of being involuntary; unwillingness; automatism.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Descartes builds on a familiar argument in the history of philosophy, an appeal to the involuntariness of sensory ideas.”
      “In other words, it was the involuntariness of a subject's behavioral response which characterized it as being a hypnotic response.”
      “But the falling man's unfreedom with respect to the act of falling is not explained by the involuntariness of his falling.”
volunteering
voluntarist
  1. someone who endorses voluntarism
  2. Examples:
    1. “Their traditional, voluntarist rides were losing out to the modern, glitzy sportive.”
      “In the late medieval period, voluntarist theologians such as William of Ockham and Gabriel Biel radically distinguished God's absolute freedom and God's covenant relations.”
      “A review of the Italian political thought of the 1920s also discloses deep associations between a rightist voluntarist model and a leftist organicist ideology of the social.”
volitionalism
  1. The theory that belief is voluntary
volitionalist
  1. An advocate of volitionalism
voluntaryism
  1. Alternative form of voluntarism
  2. Examples:
    1. “It seems to me that the left-anarchist is too ready to confuse voluntaryism with mainstream economics.”
      “With voluntaryism and self-improvement went self-respect, a code of honesty and a sense of respectability.”
      “Others felt that given the lack of voluntaryism, an incentives approach would have been better.”
voluntaryist
  1. Alternative form of voluntarist
  2. Examples:
    1. “From time to time, you may like to talk with family and friends about your voluntaryist beliefs.”
      “At its core, the Occupy movement is an experiment in a voluntaryist model of society devoid of state violence and coercion.”
volitionality
  1. The quality of being volitional.
voluntariness
  1. The condition of being voluntary.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The distinction between freedom and voluntariness is explicit in the discussion of moral virtue by Spinoza, Gilson, and Murdoch.”
      “Potential subjects would be told of these mechanisms to ensure the voluntariness of the consent during the free and informed consent process.”
      “The stipulation was founded upon the fact that at the last trial they did take care of the matters as to the voluntariness and intelligentness of the waiver of those statements.”
volitionist
volitionalists
  1. plural of volitionalist
voluntarinesses
  1. plural of voluntariness
voluntaryisms
  1. plural of voluntaryism
voluntaryists
  1. plural of voluntaryist
volunteerisms
voluntarisms
  1. plural of voluntarism
volitionists
  1. plural of volitionist
voluntarists
  1. plural of voluntarist
volunteers
  1. plural of volunteer
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “While there are 50 or more volunteers already, more are needed to replace those who may have to be absent from time to time.”
      “If there is one message from what's happened, it is that when this Government is in a jam, it volunteers little except under duress.”
      “The forum is also looking for volunteers to act as rangers along the trail.”
voluntaries
  1. plural of voluntary
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “In the middle of the period are the splendid voluntaries, written by Henry Heron, John Keeble and William Russell.”
      “As a trumpeter, I have played a number of trumpet tunes and voluntaries that were transcriptions of original baroque organ works.”
      “It is not strange that with such a chorister in charge, all solicitude about anthems and voluntaries vanished from the preacher's mind.”
volitions
  1. plural of volition
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “I was born and am maintained by the consilience of a multitude of little cellular or atomic volitions.”
      “Each series of movements is consequent on a series of volitions.”
      “In other words, there exists a will, but there are no volitions.”
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