Velleity

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Volition at its lowest level.
  • n. A mere wish or inclination.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The lowest degree of desire or volition, with no effort to act.
  • n. A slight wish not followed by any effort to obtain.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The lowest degree of desire; imperfect or incomplete volition.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Volition in the weakest form; an indolent or inactive wish or inclination toward a thing, which leads to no energetic effort to obtain it: chiefly a scholastic term.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. volition in its weakest form
  • n. a mere wish, unaccompanied by effort to obtain
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    will    volition    wish    wishing    want   
     
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