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

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

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

In Chapter VIII., we consider in what ways motor automatism—the unwilled activity of hand or voice—may be used as a means of such communication.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)

That first outcry, indeed, had been unwilled and automatic, the last reactionary movement of an overtried and exhausted body.

From Phantom Wires A Novel by Brown, Arthur William