Nonvolitional

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Not volitional; not a matter of free choice. not-comparable

    "The preference among an earlier generation of fat activists […] had been to regard fat as nonvolitional and to demand the majority's understanding, as opposed to an in-your-face defiance of social bodily controls."

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"The preference among an earlier generation of fat activists […] had been to regard fat as nonvolitional and to demand the majority's understanding, as opposed to an in-your-face defiance of social bodily controls."

Etymology

From non- + volitional.

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