Voluntariness: Definition and part of speech

Voluntariness

n. The quality or state of being voluntary; spontaneousness; specifically, the quality or state of being free in the exercise of one’s will.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

n. An instrument for measuring the volume of a body, especially a solid, by means of the difference in tension caused by its presence and absence in a confined portion of air.

n. An instrument consisting essentially of a glass tube provided with a graduated scale, for exhibiting to the eye the changes of volume of a gas or gaseous mixture resulting from chemical action, and the like.

n. An instrument for measuring the volumes of gases or liquids by introducing them into a vessel of known capacity.

n. The quality or state of being voluble (in any of the senses of the adjective).

a. Having the power or habit of turning or twining; as, the voluble stem of hop plants.
a. Easily rolling or turning; easily set in motion; apt to roll; rotating; as, voluble particles of matter.
a. Moving with ease and smoothness in uttering words; of rapid speech; nimble in speaking; glib; as, a flippant, voluble, tongue.
a. Changeable; unstable; fickle.

n. Amount, fullness, quantity, or caliber of voice or tone.
n. A roll; a scroll; a written document rolled up for keeping or for use, after the manner of the ancients.
n. Hence, a collection of printed sheets bound together, whether containing a single work, or a part of a work, or more than one work; a book; a tome; especially, that part of an extended work which is bound up together in one cover; as, a work in four volumes.
n. Anything of a rounded or swelling form resembling a roll; a turn; a convolution; a coil.
n. Dimensions; compass; space occupied, as measured by cubic units, that is, cubic inches, feet, yards, etc.; mass; bulk; as, the volume of an elephant’s body; a volume of gas.