volitional

English edit

volitional (comparative more volitional, superlative most volitional)

(not comparable) Of or relating to the volition or will.
- 1942, Olaf Stapledon, Darkness and the Light‎^[1], chapter 5, iii:
  Little by little the whole subject population of the world was fitted with the instruments of volitional control. The government was now practically omnipotent.
- 1957, Leo Kanner, Child Psychology‎^[2], 3rd edition, Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, Part Two, Chapter 4, p. 42:
  Stern and Karl Bühler noticed independently that a child’s first “No” has a volitional meaning and that the significance as a simple denial of fact appears several months afterwards.
(comparable) Done by conscious, personal choice; not based on external principles; not accidental.
- 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
  A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals to discovery.
- 2016 July 28, Rebecca Mead, “The Power of ‘Love’ in Politics”, in The New Yorker:
  “Loving on” someone—whether he likes it or not—posits love as a volitional activity, an act not of passion but of will.
(grammar, not comparable, of an inflectional class or inflected form) Expressing intention, hortation, supposition, or inclusive invitation.
Synonyms: conjectural, hortative, presumptive, tentative

of or relating to the volition or will

done by conscious, personal choice

grammar: expressing intention, hortation, supposition, or inclusive invitation

volitional (countable and uncountable, plural volitionals)
(grammar)

(uncountable) The volitional grammatical mood.
(countable) A form of a word inflected for the volitional mood; a volitional form.

grammar: volitional mood

grammar: volitional form of a word