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Unwilled

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Involuntary; spontaneous.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Not disposed of in a legal will.

adj. Not willed or wished for.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Deprived of the faculty of will or volition.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Deprived of the faculty of will; bereft of the power of volition.

Not willed; not purposed; involuntary; unintentional; spontaneous.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. without deliberate volition

adj. without deliberate intent

Word Usage

"John Bargh, in this chapter - Bypassing the Will: Towards Demystifying the Nonconscious Control of Social Behavior 1 - takes evidence from several different subdisciplines and argues that consciousness - that thing which gives us our experience of deliberate control - exists exactly to make automatic, 'unwilled', behaviours possible."

Equivalent

nonvoluntary unvoluntary involuntary unwilling

Same Context

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