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Word Meanings - WILLINGNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality or state of being willing; free choice or consent of the will; freedom from reluctance; readiness of the mind to do or forbear. Sweet is the love which comes with willingness. Dryden.

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  • ACTIVITY
    The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human activities. "The activity of toil." Palfrey. Syn. -- Liveliness; briskness; quickness.
  • QUICKNESS
    1. The condition or quality of being quick or living; life. Touch it with thy celestial quickness. Herbert. 2. Activity; briskness; especially, rapidity of motion; speed; celerity; as, quickness of wit. This deed . . . must send thee hence With
  • COMPLIANCE
    1. The act of complying; a yielding; as to a desire, demand, or proposal; concession; submission. What compliances will remove dissension Swift. Ready compliance with the wishes of his people. Macaulay. 2. A disposition to yield to others;
  • CHEERFULNESS
    Good spirits; a state of moderate joy or gayety; alacrity.
  • ALACRITY
    A cheerful readiness, willingness, or promptitude; joyous activity; briskness; sprightliness; as, the soldiers advanced with alacrity to meet the enemy. I have not that alacrity of spirit, Nor cheer of mind that I was wont to have. Shak.
  • WILLINGNESS
    The quality or state of being willing; free choice or consent of the will; freedom from reluctance; readiness of the mind to do or forbear. Sweet is the love which comes with willingness. Dryden.
  • READINESS
    The state or quality of being ready; preparation; promptness; aptitude; willingness. They received the word with all readiness of mind. Acts xvii. 11. Syn. -- Facility; quickness; expedition; promptitude; promptness; aptitude; aptness; knack; skill;
  • PROMPTITUDE
    The quality of being prompt; quickness of decision and action when occasion demands; alacrity; as, promptitude in obedience. Men of action, of promptitude, and of courage. I. Taylor.
  • BRISKNESS
    Liveliness; vigor in action; quickness; gayety; vivacity; effervescence.
  • NONCOMPLIANCE
    Neglect of compliance; failure to comply.
  • INCOMPLIANCE
    1. The quality or state of being incompliant; unyielding temper; obstinacy. Self-conceit produces peevishness and incompliance of humor in things lawful and indifferent. Tillotson. 2. Refusal or failure to comply. Strype.
  • SELF-ACTIVITY
    The quality or state of being self-active; self-action.
  • ATTRACTIVITY
    The quality or degree of attractive power.
  • DISCOMPLIANCE
    Failure or refusal to comply; noncompliance. A compliance will discommend me to Mr. Coventry, and a discompliance to my lord chancellor. Pepys.
  • UNREADINESS
    The quality or state of being unready.
  • COACTIVITY
    Unity of action.
  • THREADINESS
    Quality of being thready.
  • INACTIVITY
    1. The state or quality of being inactive; inertness; as, the inactivity of matter. 2. Idleness; habitual indisposition to action or exertion; want of energy; sluggishness. The gloomy inactivity of despair. Cook.

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