volitional

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By around age 6 months, sucking has largely transitioned to a volitional action, as a result of greater involvement by the cerebral cortex.

From Washington Post • Jan. 28, 2023

A planned frolic that features joyful dancing to the compulsive rhythms of a string band forgets that the conditions behind this festivity aren’t volitional.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 23, 2022

The words “against the person of another,” she wrote, requires volitional conduct and “demands that the perpetrator direct his action at, or target, another individual.”

From New York Times • Jun. 10, 2021

Spanning the late teens and early 20s, it’s a volitional, transitional period marked by exploration of life and love, work and world views.

From Washington Times • Jan. 31, 2021

But the volitional faculty of the generation, according to Nietzsche, is so debilitated as to be utterly inadequate to its office.

From Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy by Heller, Otto