Usually means: Act of making conscious choices.
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  1. volition: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. volition: Merriam-Webster
  3. volition: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. volition: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. volition: Collins English Dictionary
  6. volition: Vocabulary.com
  7. Volition, volition: Wordnik
  8. volition: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. volition: Wiktionary
  10. volition: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. volition: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. volition: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. volition: Dictionary.com
  14. volition: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. volition: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Volition (Protest the Hero album), Volition (company), Volition (linguistics), Volition (psychology), Volition: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Volition: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. volition: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. volition: Rhymezone
  20. volition: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. volition: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. volition: FreeDictionary.org
  23. volition: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. volition: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. volition: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names
  2. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. volition: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. volition: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. volition: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Neurotrauma Glossary (No longer online)
  6. volition: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. volition: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A conscious choice or decision.
noun:  The mental power or ability of choosing; the will.
noun:  (linguistics) A concept that distinguishes whether or not the subject or agent intended something.

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