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Volitional meaning

  1. Of or relating to the volition or will.
  2. Done by conscious, personal choice; not based on external principles; not accidental.
  3. Expressing intention, hortation, supposition, or inclusive invitation.

Synonyms of Volitional

willing voluntary

Related words

Other words often associated with Volitional or its synonyms:

unforced willful prepared involuntary consenting compliant freewill inclined happy intentional conscious fain

Using Volitional

  • The main meaning on this page is: Of or relating to the volition or will. | Done by conscious, personal choice; not based on external principles; not accidental. | Expressing intention, hortation, supposition, or inclusive invitation.
  • Useful related words include: willing, voluntary.
  • In the example corpus, volitional often appears in combinations such as: volitional movement, and volitional.

Context around Volitional

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 25.2 words
  • Position in the sentence: 1 start, 5 middle, 5 end
  • Sentence types: 11 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

perform 1× include 1× laws 1×

Often after:

movement 2× speech 1× tasks 1× events 1× laws 1× domains 1× capacity 1× movements 1× mental 1×

Sentence patterns with Volitional

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

biological or volitional domains 1× cognitive and volitional capacity of 1× gait and volitional movement together 1× individual s volitional speech and 1× out any volitional movements of 1× physical laws volitional laws and 1× proof of volitional movement is 1× to perform volitional tasks with 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

aos affects an 1× aos often co 1× based on the 1× instead it views 1× physiotherapy programs are 1× the arising and 1×

Common sentence endings:

an ethicised consciousness 1× and universal laws 1× capacity of insanity 1× desire for change 1× for a conviction 1× illness or injury 1×

Words around Volitional

Just before it in the word index:

volition 54 volin 8 volibear 2 voli 3 volhynia 8 volgograd 25

Just after it in the word index:

volk 35 volkan 5 volkanovski 41 volke 3 volkel 3 volker 79

Similar in corpus frequency:

aadi 14 aayush 14 abbottabad 14 aberdonian 14 abhi 14 aborting 14

Corpus analysis for Volitional

  • In this selection, "volitional" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, perform, include, laws, movement, speech and tasks stand out and add context to how "volitional" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include biological or volitional domains and cognitive and volitional capacity of. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "volitional" sits close to words such as aadi, aayush and abbottabad, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with volitional

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

The test thus takes into account both the cognitive and volitional capacity of insanity. (14 words)

The final effect may be purely physical or it may reach far into the biological or volitional domains. (18 words)

This is an ability to carry out any volitional movements of the tongue, cheeks, lips, pharynx, or larynx on command. (20 words)

Longer example sentences

Based on the ruling in Mercer v. Department of Motor Vehicles (1991), while you can still get a DUI if the vehicle isn't in motion, proof of "volitional movement" is required for a conviction. (35 words)

While describing events apparently chosen randomly in ostensibly precise mathematical or scientific terms, the episode is rife with errors made by the undefined narrator, many or most of which are volitional by Joyce. (33 words)

The arising and passing of these aggregates in the present moment is described as being influenced by five causal laws: biological laws, psychological laws, physical laws, volitional laws, and universal laws. (31 words)

Example sentences (11)

Based on the ruling in Mercer v. Department of Motor Vehicles (1991), while you can still get a DUI if the vehicle isn't in motion, proof of "volitional movement" is required for a conviction.

AOS affects an individual's volitional speech and citation is typically the result of a stroke, tumor, or other known neurological illness or injury.

AOS often co-occurs with Oral Apraxia, which is the inability to perform volitional tasks with the oral structures not involving speech.

Instead it views the person as a set of constantly changing processes which include volitional events seeking change and an awareness of that desire for change.

Physiotherapy programs are designed to encourage the patient to build a strength base for improved gait and volitional movement, together with stretching programs to limit contractures.

The arising and passing of these aggregates in the present moment is described as being influenced by five causal laws: biological laws, psychological laws, physical laws, volitional laws, and universal laws.

The final effect may be purely physical or it may reach far into the biological or volitional domains.

The test thus takes into account both the cognitive and volitional capacity of insanity.

This is an ability to carry out any volitional movements of the tongue, cheeks, lips, pharynx, or larynx on command.

Unlike the Jains who believed that karma was a quasi-physical element, for the Buddha karma was a volitional mental event, what Richard Gombrich calls ‘an ethicised consciousness’.

While describing events apparently chosen randomly in ostensibly precise mathematical or scientific terms, the episode is rife with errors made by the undefined narrator, many or most of which are volitional by Joyce.

Common combinations with volitional

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "volitional" in a sentence?
An example: "Based on the ruling in Mercer v. Department of Motor Vehicles (1991), while you can still get a DUI if the vehicle isn't in motion, proof of "volitional movement" is required for a conviction." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "volitional" from authentic English texts.
What does "volitional" mean?
Volitional means: Of or relating to the volition or will.
What are synonyms of "volitional"?
Common synonyms of "volitional" include: willing, voluntary.
How many example sentences with "volitional" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "volitional", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.