unwilled

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It is an unwilled loss of distinction between the simulation and that which is being simulated, including the adventures and quests of WoW.

From Forbes • Nov. 28, 2014

It is a powerful and unwilled form of identification, a Houdini-like vanishing act that allows Bolaño to merge with his scariest and most repellent creations as much as with his likable ones.

From Salon • Jan. 19, 2014

The minimum that suffices for the personal benefits of merit and impetration is the verbal or the literal attention, and the imperfect attention that is mixed with some unwilled distractions or mind wanderings.

From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Callan, Charles Jerome

Here, however, the dividing line generally sought between willed and unwilled, involuntary, or, as we say, drifting thought, becomes dim and uncertain.

From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by Williams, C. M.

"Age cannot wither, nor custom stale—" To his instinctive, unwilled fancy, she was Cleopatra.

From Aaron's Rod by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)