The phrase "of volition" refers to something done by one's own choice or will. Antonyms for this phrase would include actions taken involuntarily or without choice. Such activities might be forced, compulsory, or mandatory. Antonyms for the word "volition" are words like coercion, restraint, compulsion, and obligation. When one is acting under duress, the action is not truly of their own volition. Instead, it is done as a result of pressure, fear, or other external factors. Antonyms of this phrase describe actions that lack personal agency, in contrast with actions that are undertaken willingly and freely.

What are the antonyms for Of volition?

• adv.

  • independently
  • Dependently
  ,
  • together
  .

Famous quotes with Of volition

• The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no longer forms a part; but belief is only a stadium of mental action, an effect upon our nature due to thought, which will influence future thinking.

  Charles Sanders Peirce
• This kind of internal "telepathic" intercourse, which was to serve me in all my wanderings, was at first difficult, ineffective, and painful. But in time I came to be able to live through the experiences of my host with vividness and accuracy, while yet preserving my own individuality, my own critical intelligence, my own desires and fears. Only when the other had come to realize my presence within him could he, by a special act of volition, keep particular thoughts secret from me.

  Olaf Stapledon
• Though it is folly to suppose that happiness is a matter of volition, and that we can make ourselves content and cheerful whenever we choose — a theory that many poor hypochondriacs are taunted with till they are nigh driven mad — yet, on the other hand, no sane mind is ever left without the power of self-discipline and self-control in a measure, which measure increases in proportion as it is exercised.

  Dinah Craik
• The merest presence of life, even the smallest possible quantity of volition, desire and intent was enough to reverse the process by which the eternal landscape of hell made itself known.

  Philip K. Dick

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