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Involuntariness   Listen
Involuntariness

noun
1.
The trait of being unwilling.  Synonym: unwillingness.  "In spite of our warnings he plowed ahead with the involuntariness of an automaton"





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"Involuntariness" Quotes from Famous Books



... view of the heavens in a prior state of being. The ideas also remain, but they have become types in nature, forms of men, animals, birds, fishes. And the attribution of evil to physical causes accords with the doctrine which he maintains in the Laws respecting the involuntariness of vice. ...
— Timaeus • Plato


Words linked to "Involuntariness" :   resistance, temperament, reluctance, hesitancy, disinclination, willingness, unwillingness, hesitation, disposition, indisposition


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