different between desire vs volition

English

Etymology

From Middle English desire (noun) and desiren (verb), from Old French desirer, desirrer, from Latin d?s?der? (“to long for, desire, feel the want of, miss, regret”), apparently from de- + sidus (in the phrase de sidere, "from the stars") in connection with astrological hopes. Compare consider. Compare also desiderate.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: d?-z?r?, d?-z???r, IPA^(key): /d??za??/
• (General American) enPR: d?-z?r?, d?-z???r, d?-z?r?, d?-z???r, IPA^(key): /d??za??/, /d??za??/, /di?za??/, /di?za??/
• Rhymes: -a??(?)
• Hyphenation: de?sire

Verb

desire (third-person singular simple present desires, present participle desiring, simple past and past participle desired)

1. To want; to wish for earnestly.
2. To put a request to (someone); to entreat.
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Acts XIII:

     And when they founde no cause of deeth in hym, yet desired they Pilate to kyll him.
3. To want emotionally or sexually.

4. To express a wish for; to entreat; to request.
5. To require; to demand; to claim.
   • c. 1580, Edmund Spenser, The Teares of the Muses

     A doleful case desires a doleful song.

6. To miss; to regret.
   • 1673, Jeremy Taylor, Heniaytos: A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year […]

     She shall be pleasant while she lives, and desired when she dies.

Related terms

Translations

Noun

desire (usually uncountable, plural desires)

1. (countable) Someone or something wished for.

2. (uncountable) Strong attraction, particularly romantic or sexual.

3. (uncountable) The feeling of desiring; an eager longing for something.

4. (uncountable) Motivation. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Synonyms

• (one or thing wished for): wanna, want-to; See also Thesaurus:desire
• (motivation): wanna, want-to

Translations

See also

• velleity

Related terms

• desirable
• desiring-production
• desirous

Further reading

• desire in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• desire in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• desier, eiders, eresid, redies, reside

Italian

Alternative forms

• desiro
• disire, disiro

Etymology

From Old Occitan dezire.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de?zi.re/
• Rhymes: -ire
• Hyphenation: de?sì?re

Noun

desire m (plural desiri)

1. (poetic, archaic) desire

   Synonym: desiderio

Related terms

• desio
• desirare

References

• desire in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Middle English

Noun

desire

1. desire

Descendants

• English: desire

English

Etymology

From French volition, from Medieval Latin voliti? (“will, volition”), from Latin vol? (“to wish; to want; to mean or intend”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *welh?- (“to choose; to want”)) + -ti? (“suffix forming nouns relating to some action or the result of an action”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *-tis (“suffix forming abstract or action nouns from verbs”)).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /v??l??(?)n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /vo??l??(?)n/
• Rhymes: -???n
• Hyphenation: vo?li?tion

Noun

volition (countable and uncountable, plural volitions)

1. A conscious choice or decision. [from early 17th c.]
2. The mental power or ability of choosing; the will.
3. (linguistics) A concept that distinguishes whether or not the subject or agent intended something.

Derived terms

• volitional
• volitionally

Related terms

• voluntarism
• voluntarist
• volunteer

Translations

Further reading

• volition (linguistics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• volition (psychology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• volition (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• volition in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• volition in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

French

Etymology

From Medieval Latin voliti? (“will, volition”), from Latin vol? (“I wish, I will”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?.li.sj??/

Noun

volition f (plural volitions)

1. (philosophy, psychology) volition

See also

• volonté

Further reading

• “volition” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).