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3 definitions found
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Willingness \Will"ing*ness\, noun
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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
willingness
noun: 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
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