Define the word free will"Free will" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Free will \Free will\
1. A will free from improper coercion or restraint.
[1913 Webster]
To come thus was I not constrained, but did
On my free will. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
2. The power asserted of moral beings of willing or choosing
without the restraints of physical or absolute necessity.
[1913 Webster] free-will
"free will" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"
free will
n : the power of making free choices unconstrained by external
agencies [syn: discretion]
"free will" moby-thes "Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0"
62 Moby Thesaurus words for "free will":
alternativity, animus, appetence, appetency, appetite,
autonomousness, autonomy, choice, choosing, co-optation, co-option,
command, conation, conatus, decision, desire, determination,
discretion, disposition, election, fancy, first choice,
free choice, free decision, full consent, gratuitousness,
inclination, independence, intention, liking, lust, mind,
noncontingent free will, objective, option, passion, pick,
pleasure, preference, preoption, resolution, say, say-so,
selection, self-action, self-activity, self-determination,
sexual desire, spontaneity, spontaneousness, the pick,
unforcedness, velleity, volition, voluntariness, voluntarism,
voluntaryism, volunteer, volunteering, will, will power, wish
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