单词 | velleity |
释义 | velleity (once / 190635 pages) n A velleity is a wish you have — a wish that you aren't working to make come true. If you have a velleity to run a marathon, the marathon sounds like a good idea — but you probably aren't going to start training. The word velleity comes from the Latin word velle, to wish or to will. A mild impulse to do something, unaccompanied by any real motivation to follow through, can be called a velleity. If you dream of going on safari in Africa, but you never even look into how much it costs, that dream was just a velleity. Your dream of speaking fluent Spanish is a velleity if you never get around to opening your textbook. WORD FAMILYvelleity: velleities USAGE EXAMPLESIt was the least effort he could spend — a velleity — to appease them and avoid being sent to the gulag, or worse. Washington Post(May 17, 2014) And our being results not from velleities but from the real will. Gentile, Giovanni, The Reform of Education(2011) They have but the velleity of the eunuch. Lissagary, P., History of the Commune of 1871(2011) 1n a mere wish, unaccompanied by effort to obtain Hyper want, wish, wishing a specific feeling of desire 2n volition in its weakest form Hyper volition, will the capability of conscious choice and decision and intention |
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