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Involuntariness   Listen
Involuntariness

noun
1.
The trait of being unwilling.  Synonym: unwillingness.  "In spite of our warnings he plowed ahead with the involuntariness of an automaton"





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"Involuntariness" Quotes from Famous Books



... we do not usually apply the term involuntary when a man is ignorant of his own true interest; because ignorance which affects moral choice constitutes depravity but not involuntariness: nor does any ignorance of principle (because for this men are blamed) but ignorance in particular details, wherein consists the action and wherewith it is concerned, for in these there is both compassion and allowance, because he who acts in ignorance of any ...
— Ethics • Aristotle


Words linked to "Involuntariness" :   temperament, willingness, resistance, hesitancy, reluctance, disinclination, unwillingness, indisposition, disposition, hesitation


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