Velleity
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /vɛˈliː.ɪ.ti/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Velleity is a noun meaning The lowest degree of desire or volition; a total lack of effort to act.
Meaning
The lowest degree of desire or volition; a total lack of effort to act.
More Meanings
- A slight wish not followed by any effort to obtain.
Example Sentences
The difficulty of getting here prevented people from coming on a velleity.
The debate in the House of Lords would convert the impartial listener from any velleity towards single-chamber government.
This connoisseuse of “splendid weaknesses”, run not by any lust or even velleity but by vacuum: by the absence of human hope.
—And so the conversation slips / Among velleities and carefully caught regrets / Through attenuated tones of violins / Mingled with remote cornets / And begins.
Word Forms
- velleities
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include wish, volitionlessness, nonvolition, antivolition, undesire, drivelessness.
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