will-less
adjective
having or exerting no will.
will-lessness
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a word derived from
will-less.
Example Sentences
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The sense of will-lessness afflicts modern man, the conviction that he cannot affect events or even control his own destiny.
From Time Magazine Archive
This compounds the sense of will-lessness that pervades the book and gives Dr. Zhivago the air of a hapless victim.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was acting in a state of will-lessness, of auto-suggestion.
From Atlantis by Adele Szold Seltzer
The world of Calypso is that of self-indulgence, inactivity, will-lessness, to which Ulysses has sunk after his sin against the source of light, after his negation of all intelligence.
From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Denton Jaques Snider
Man now attains to the state of voluntary renunciation, resignation, true indifference, and perfect will-lessness.
From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer
