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velleity

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Noun
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun velleity has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

velleityn. [F. velléité (cf. It. velleità), fr. L. velle to will, to be willing.].
     The lowest degree of desire; imperfect or incomplete volition.  Locke.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

velleity, n. literary 1 a low degree of volition not conducive to action.
2 a slight wish or inclination.

Etymology
med.L velleitas f. L velle to wish

ROGET THESAURUS

velleity

Will

N will, volition, conation, velleity, liberum arbitrium, will and pleasure, free will, freedom, discretion, option, voluntariness, spontaneity, spontaneousness, originality, pleasure, wish, mind, desire, frame of mind, intention, predetermination, selfcontrol, determination, force of will, voluntary, volitional, willful, free, optional, discretional, discretionary, volitient, volitive, minded, prepense, intended, autocratic, unbidden &c (bid), spontaneous, original, unconstrained, voluntarily, at will, at pleasure, a volonte, a discretion, al piacere, ad libitum, ad arbitrium, as one thinks proper, as it seems good to, a beneplacito, of one's won accord, of one's own free will, proprio motu, suo motu, ex meromotu, out of one's won head, by choice, purposely, deliberately, stet pro ratione voluntas, sic volo sic jubeo, a vostro beneplacito, beneficium accipere libertatem est vendere, Deus vult, was man nicht kann meiden muss man willig leiden.

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