Definition of "volitional"

volitional

/vɒˈlɪʃənəl/

adjective
comparative more volitional, superlative most volitional
1. (not comparable) Of or relating to the volition or will.
  Quotations
  Little by little the whole subject population of the world was fitted with the instruments of volitional control. The government was now practically omnipotent.
  1942, Olaf Stapledon, Darkness and the Light‎, chapter 5, iii
  Stern and Karl Bühler noticed independently that a child’s first “No” has a volitional meaning and that the significance as a simple denial of fact appears several months afterwards.
  1957, Leo Kanner, Child Psychology‎, 3rd edition, Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, Part Two, Chapter 4, p. 42
2. (comparable) Done by conscious, personal choice; not based on external principles; not accidental.
  Quotations
  A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals to discovery.
  1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […]
  “Loving on” someone—whether he likes it or not—posits love as a volitional activity, an act not of passion but of will.
  2016 July 28, Rebecca Mead, “The Power of ‘Love’ in Politics”, in The New Yorker
3. (grammar, not comparable, of an inflectional class or inflected form) Expressing intention, hortation, supposition, or inclusive invitation.
noun
countable and uncountable, plural volitionals
1. (uncountable) The volitional grammatical mood.
2. (countable) A form of a word inflected for the volitional mood; a volitional form.

Definition of "volitional"

volitional

adjective

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noun