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

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 (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  4. Neurotrauma Glossary (No longer online)
  5. 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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