involuntarinessn.
The quality of being involuntary.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > intention > unintentional or unplanned character > [noun] > unintentional or involuntary quality
involuntariness1649
unintentness1670
indeliberateness1681
unmeaningness1728
unintentionality1780
unwittingness1873
1649 Bp. J. Hall Resol. & Decisions i. viii. 75 I apprehend there is not an absolute involuntarinesse in this ingagement, but a mixt one.
1812 P. B. Shelley Addr. in Prose Wks. (1888) I. 260 The religious freedom which the involuntariness of faith ought to have taught all monopolists of Heaven long, long ago, that every one had a right to possess.
1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues I. 328 The Socratic doctrine of the involuntariness of evil.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
<
n.1649