volitional

1. 1.

   with deliberate intention

   “a volitional act”

   Similarwilling

Questions about volitional

What does volitional mean?

volitional means "with deliberate intention".

How many syllables are in volitional?

volitional has 5 syllables and divides as vo-li-ti-o-nal under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is volitional a common word?

volitional is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.