nonvolitional

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From non- +‎ volitional.

Adjective[edit]

nonvolitional (not comparable)

  1. Not volitional; not a matter of free choice.
    • 1996, Laura Kipnis, Bound and Gagged:
      The preference among an earlier generation of fat activists […] had been to regard fat as nonvolitional and to demand the majority's understanding, as opposed to an in-your-face defiance of social bodily controls.
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