Willingness

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Willingness \Will"ing*ness\, n.
     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.
     [1913 Webster]
  


           Sweet is the love which comes with willingness.
                                                    --Dryden.
     [1913 Webster] Williwaw

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  willingness
       n : cheerful compliance; "he expressed his willingness to help"
           [ant: {unwillingness}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  97 Moby Thesaurus words for "willingness":
     OK, a thing for, acceptance, accord, acquiescence, affinity,
     affirmation, affirmative, affirmative voice, agreement, allegiance,
     approbation, approval, aptitude, aptness, assent, aye, bent, bias,
     blessing, brightness, cast, cleverness, compliance, conatus,
     conduciveness, conformity, connivance, consent, delight, diathesis,
     disposition, docility, duteousness, dutifulness, eagerness,
     educability, endorsement, facility, faith, fealty, feeling for,
     homage, impressionability, inclination, intelligence, leaning,
     liability, liking, loyalty, malleability, moldability, motivation,
     obedience, obediency, observance, okay, penchant, permission,
     plasticity, pliability, predilection, predisposition, prejudice,
     probability, proclivity, promptitude, promptness, proneness,
     propensity, quickness, ratification, readiness, receptivity,
     sanction, sensitivity to, service, servility, servitium, soft spot,
     submission, submissiveness, suit and service, suit service,
     susceptibility, teachability, teachableness, tendency,
     trainableness, tropism, turn, twist, ungrudgingness, unloathness,
     unreluctance, warp, weakness