noun. Weak desire or volition.

noun. A slight or weak wish or inclination.

noun. Volition in the weakest form; an indolent or inactive wish or inclination toward a thing, which leads to no energetic effort to obtain it: chiefly a scholastic term.

noun. The lowest degree of desire; imperfect or incomplete volition.

noun. The lowest degree of desire or volition, with no effort to act.

noun. A slight wish not followed by any effort to obtain.

noun. volition in its weakest form

noun. a mere wish, unaccompanied by effort to obtain

"We may well say: I would desire to be young; but we do not say: I desire to be young; seeing that this is not possible; and this motion is called a wishing, or as the Scholastics term it a velleity, which is nothing else but a commencement of willing, not followed out, because the will, by reason of impossibility or extreme difficulty, stops her motion, and ends it in this simple affection of a wish."

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