volition

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• Received-Pronunciation: /vəˈlɪʃ(ə)n/
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• General-American: /voʊˈlɪʃ(ə)n/
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• rhymes with -ɪʃən
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• CMU ARPABET: V OW0 L IH1 SH AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *welh1-der. Proto-Indo-European *weyh1-influ. Proto-Italic *welō Latin volō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Medieval Latin volitiōbor. French volitionder. English volition From French volition, from Medieval Latin volitiō (“will, volition”), from Latin volō (“to wish; to want; to mean or intend”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *welh1- (“to choose; to want”)) + -tiō (suffix forming nouns relating to some action or the result of an action) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *-tis (suffix forming abstract or action nouns from verbs)).

55 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: воля (volja) — conscious choice or decision
• Chinese Mandarin: 意志 (yìzhì) — conscious choice or decision
• Chinese Mandarin: 決斷 /决断 (juéduàn) — conscious choice or decision
• Dutch: wil — conscious choice or decision
• Finnish: valinta — conscious choice or decision
• Finnish: päätös — conscious choice or decision
• French: volonté — conscious choice or decision
• Georgian: წადილი (c̣adili) — conscious choice or decision
• Georgian: სურვილი (survili) — conscious choice or decision
• Georgian: საწადელი (sac̣adeli) — conscious choice or decision
• German: Vorsatz — conscious choice or decision
• Hungarian: szándék — conscious choice or decision
• Hungarian: elhatározás — conscious choice or decision
• Indonesian: kehendak — conscious choice or decision
• Indonesian: kemauan — conscious choice or decision
• Italian: volontà — conscious choice or decision
• Italian: volizione — conscious choice or decision
• Italian: volitività — conscious choice or decision
• Italian: arbitrio — conscious choice or decision
• Japanese: 意志 — conscious choice or decision
• Japanese: 決断 — conscious choice or decision
• Polish: wola — conscious choice or decision
• Portuguese: volição — conscious choice or decision
• Spanish: volición — conscious choice or decision
• Spanish: voluntad — conscious choice or decision
• Spanish: albedrío — conscious choice or decision
• Swedish: vilja — conscious choice or decision
• Thai: สัญเจตนา — conscious choice or decision
• Thai: ความจงใจ (kwaam-jong-jai) — conscious choice or decision
• Turkish: seçim; karar — conscious choice or decision
• Ukrainian: воління (volinnia) — conscious choice or decision
• Bulgarian: воля (volja) — mental power or ability of choosing
• Chinese Mandarin: 意志力 (yìzhìlì) — mental power or ability of choosing
• Dutch: wilskracht — mental power or ability of choosing
• Finnish: tahto — mental power or ability of choosing
• French: énergie — mental power or ability of choosing
• Galician: vontade — mental power or ability of choosing
• Georgian: ნება (neba) — mental power or ability of choosing
• Georgian: ნებასურვილი (nebasurvili) — mental power or ability of choosing
• German: Wille — mental power or ability of choosing
• German: Willenskraft — mental power or ability of choosing
• Hungarian: akarat — mental power or ability of choosing
• Hungarian: akarás — mental power or ability of choosing
• Italian: volontà — mental power or ability of choosing
• Japanese: 意志力 — mental power or ability of choosing
• Korean: 의지력 (uijiryeok) — mental power or ability of choosing
• Portuguese: volição — mental power or ability of choosing
• Portuguese: vontade — mental power or ability of choosing
• Russian: воля (volja) — mental power or ability of choosing
• Spanish: volición — mental power or ability of choosing
• Spanish: voluntad — mental power or ability of choosing
• Spanish: albedrío — mental power or ability of choosing
• Swedish: vilja — mental power or ability of choosing
• Turkish: istenç; irade — mental power or ability of choosing
• Vietnamese: ý chí — mental power or ability of choosing