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Definition of Involuntariness

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

Definition of Involuntariness

1. n. The quality or state of being involuntary; unwillingness; automatism.

Definition of Involuntariness

1. Noun. The state of being involuntary; unwillingness; automatism. ¹

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Definition of Involuntariness

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Medical Definition of Involuntariness

1. The quality or state of being involuntary; unwillingness; automatism. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Involuntariness

Literary usage of Involuntariness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Aquinas Ethicus: Or, The Moral Teaching of St. Thomas. A Translation of the by Thomas, Joseph Rickaby (1896)
"Ignorance has in it to cause involuntariness, as robbing the mind of knowledge, the necessary preliminary to a voluntary act. Still it is not every sort of ..."

2. A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume (1874)
"It is for lack of this explanation that Locke himself, as we have seen, finds in the liveliness and involuntariness of ideas the sole and sufficient tests ..."

3. Works of Thomas Hill Green by Thomas Hill Green (1894)
"It is for lack of this explanation that Locke himself, as we have seen, finds in the liveliness and involuntariness of ideas the sole and sufficient tests ..."

4. A Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church by Philip Schaff, Henry Wace (1899)
"Further, many attribute true involuntariness not only to suffering, ... involuntariness, on the other hand, brings merited pity or pardon in its train, ..."

5. The Musical World (1855)
"... Activity and Contemplation, involuntariness and Consciousness. ... could no longer judge us in conformity with the involuntariness of the approval of ..."

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