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nonvolitional

nonvolitional adjective: not volitional; not a matter of free choice.

Adjective

nonvolitional (not comparable)

  1. Not volitional; not a matter of free choice.
    • The preference among an earlier generation of fat activists […] had been to regard fat as nonvolitional and to demand the majority's understanding, as opposed to an in-your-face defiance of social bodily controls.1996, Laura Kipnis, Bound and Gagged

Origin of nonvolitional

From non- + volitional.

Questions about nonvolitional

What does nonvolitional mean?
Nonvolitional means not volitional; not a matter of free choice.
What part of speech is nonvolitional?
Nonvolitional is an adjective.

Words near nonvolitional in the dictionary

  1. nonvolatilized
  2. nonvolcanic
  3. nonvolcaniclastic
  4. nonvolcanogenic
  5. nonvolition
  6. nonvolitional
  7. nonvolitionally
  8. nonvolitive
  9. nonvolume
  10. nonvolumetric
  11. nonvoluntarily

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