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decisiveness
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | decision |
| Synonyms: | assertiveness, conclusiveness, decidedness, determination, emphaticalness, firmness, purpose, purposefulness, resoluteness, resolution, resolve, willpower |
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| Main Entry: | finality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | definiteness, conclusiveness |
| Synonyms: | certitude, completeness, decidedness, decisiveness, entirety, finish, inevitableness, intactness, integrity, irrevocability, perfection, resolution, terminality, totality, unavoidability, wholeness |
| Antonyms: | continuity, inconclusiveness, indefiniteness |
| Main Entry: | will |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | personal choice |
| Synonyms: | aim, appetite, attitude, character, conviction, craving, decision, decisiveness, decree, design, desire, determination, discipline, discretion, disposition, fancy, feeling, hankering, heart's desire, inclination, intention, liking, longing, mind, option, passion, pining, pleasure, power, preference, prerogative, purpose, resolution, resolve, self-control, self-discipline, self-restraint, temperament, urge, velleity, volition, willfulness, willpower, wish, wishes, yearning |
| Main Entry: | decidedness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | decision |
| Synonyms: | assertiveness, conclusiveness, decisiveness, determination, emphaticalness, firmness, purpose, purposefulness, resoluteness, resolution, resolve, willpower |
| Main Entry: | purposefulness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | decision |
| Synonyms: | backbone*, decidedness, decisiveness, determination, doggedness, earnestness, firmness, fortitude, grit, iron will, obstinacy, obstinance, perseverance, persistence, pluck, purpose, purposiveness, resoluteness, resolution, resolve, seriousness, spine, stubbornness, toughness, volition, will, will power, willpower |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | resoluteness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | decision |
| Synonyms: | backbone*, decidedness, decisiveness, determination, doggedness, earnestness, firmness, fortitude, grit, iron will, obstinacy, obstinance, perseverance, persistence, pluck, purpose, purposefulness, purposiveness, resolution, resolve, seriousness, spine, stubbornness, toughness, volition, will, will power, willpower |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | toughness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | determination |
| Synonyms: | backbone*, decidedness, decisiveness, doggedness, earnestness, firmness, fortitude, grit, iron will, obstinacy, obstinance, perseverance, persistence, pluck, purpose, purposefulness, purposiveness, resoluteness, resolution, resolve, seriousness, spine, stubbornness, volition, will, will power, willpower |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Concept: | Will. |
| Category: | 1. Acts of volition |
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-nouns
will, volition, conation, velleity; liberum arbitrium; will and pleasure, free will; freedom; discretion; option (choice); voluntariness; spontaneity, spontaneousness; originality., pleasure, wish, mind; desire; frame of mind (inclination); intention; predetermination; self-control, determination (resolution) [more]; force of will.
-verbs
will, list; see fit, think fit; determine (resolve); enjoin; settle (choose); volunteer., have a will of one's own; do what one chooses (freedom); have it all one's own way; have one's will, have one's own way., use one's discretion, exercise one's discretion; take upon oneself, take one's own course, take the law into one's own hands; do of one's own accord, do upon one's own authority; originate (cause).
-adjectives
voluntary, volitional, willful; free; optional; discretional, discretionary; volitient, volitive., minded (willing); prepense (predetermined); intended; autocratic; unbidden (bid [more]); spontaneous; original (casual); unconstrained.
-adverbs
voluntarily; at will, at pleasure; a volonte, a discretion; al piacere; ad libitum, ad arbitrium; as one thinks proper, as it seems good to; a beneplacito., of one's own accord, of one's own free will; proprio motu, suo motu, ex meromotu; out of one's own head; by choice; purposely (intentionally); deliberately.
-phrases
stet pro ratione voluntas; sic volo sic jubeo; a vostro beneplacito; beneficium accipere libertatem est vendere; Deus vull; was man nicht kann meiden muss man wilig leiden.
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| Antonyms: | necessity |
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