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

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.

Suddenly a new irrelevant, unwilled, unlooked-for presence intrudes itself into consciousness.

From A Series of Lessons in Raja Yoga by Atkinson, William Walker

It may be unwilled and unintended but it is inexorable.

From Catastrophe and Social Change Based Upon a Sociological Study of the Halifax Disaster by Prince, Samuel Henry