🧠 Volition — Will You Learn This SAT Vocabulary Word?
VOLITION most nearly means: A) free will; B) alacrity; C) hostility; D) hesitation. Answer inside. 👉️
What does it mean to do something of your own volition? Let’s find out.
📚️ Definition of Volition
Volition (noun): The faculty or power of using one’s will to make a choice or decision freely; the act of making a conscious, independent decision without outside force. Example: to quit a job of one’s own volition.
🗣️ Pronunciation of Volition
IPA: /vəˈlɪʃ.ən/ (See IPA key)
Respelling: vuh-LIH-shun
📰 Examples of Volition
Here are some examples of the word volition:
The witness agreed to testify of her own volition, with no intimidation or coercion.
Our sense of volition may be partly an illusion, which leads us to question whether we even have free will.
“Volition is a psychic or moral fact pure and simple, and is absolutely completed when the stable state of the idea is there.” — William James, The Principles of Psychology (1890)
A good way to remember volition: think of a volunteer. No one forces a volunteer to help—they show up of their own volition.
Quiz answer: A, free will.