Conation

Quick meaning: Conation is a noun meaning (philosophy) The power or act which directs or impels to effort of any kind, whether muscular or psychical.

Meaning

(philosophy) The power or act which directs or impels to effort of any kind, whether muscular or psychical.

Example Sentences

You can sit quiet and hear the processes going on, going about their business; volition, desire, will, cognition, passion, conation.

[The] 'purposive conscious striving' aspect of conation is very likely a concept we need to treat separately if we are to study human motivation successfully […]

Any pleasing sense-experience, when it has once taken place, will, on subsequent occasions, give rise to a conation, when its conditions are only partially repeated.

Word Forms

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Related Words

Related dictionary entries include conduct, command, conduction, conception, concitation, conatus.

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