volitional

adj

1. (formal, not-comparable)Of or relating to the volition or will.

   “Little by little the whole subject population of the world was fitted with the instruments of volitional control. The government was now practically omnipotent.”

   “Stern and Karl Bühler noticed independently that a child’s first “No” has a volitional meaning and that the significance as a simple denial of fact appears several months afterwards.”

2. (comparable)Done by conscious, personal choice; not based on external principles; not accidental.

   “A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals to discovery.”

   ““Loving on” someone—whether he likes it or not—posits love as a volitional activity, an act not of passion but of will.”

3. (not-comparable)Expressing intention, hortation, supposition, or inclusive invitation.

noun

1. The volitional grammatical mood.
2. A form of a word inflected for the volitional mood; a volitional form.