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NOLITION

Definition: NOLITION

NOLITION

Noun

1. Adverse action of will; unwillingness; -- opposed to volition.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Nolition \No*li"tion\, noun. [Latin expression nolle not to will, to be unwilling; ne velle to will, to be willing.]. (Websters 1913)

 

Synonyms within Context: NOLITION

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Unwillingness

Noun: unwillingness; Adjective: indisposition, indisposedness; disinclination, aversation; nolleity, nolition; renitence, renitency; reluctance; indifference; backwardness; Adjective: slowness; want of alacrity,want of readiness; indocility; (obstinacy).

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: NOLITION

English words defined with "NOLITION": Nolleity. (references)

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Rhyming with "NOLITION"

Words rhyming with "NOLITION" (pronounced 'No*li"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references)

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Anagrams: NOLITION

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "i-i-l-n-n-o-o-t"

-1 letter: nitinol.

-2 letters: lotion, notion.

-3 letters: inion, linin, niton, onion.

-4 letters: inti, into, linn, lino, lint, lion, loin, loon, loot, loti, noil, nolo, noon, olio, onto, toil, tool, toon.

-5 letters: inn, ion, lin, lit, loo, lot, nil, nit, noo, not, oil, oot, til, tin, ton, too.

 Words containing the letters "i-i-l-n-n-o-o-t"
 

+2 letters: insolation, involution.

 

+3 letters: cognitional, conditional, confliction, inoculation, insolations, involutions, lionization, nonmotility, notionality, pollination.

 

+4 letters: anticolonial, chlorination, colonisation, colonization, columniation, conciliation, conditionals, conflictions, fluorination, innovational, inoculations, inosculation, intonational, invocational, involutional, lionizations, moonlighting, nonbiologist, noneditorial, nonfictional, nonpolitical, nonsocialist, novelization, obnubilation, pollinations.

 

+5 letters: anthologizing, anticollision, anticolonials, antievolution, antipollution, biconditional, chlorinations, colonisations, colonizations, columniations, combinational, conciliations, conditionable, conditionally, consolidating, consolidation, dinitrophenol, fluorinations, informational, inosculations, intercolonial, interpolation, nonbiologists, nondiplomatic, nonexploitive, nonhistorical, nonmotilities, nonpolitician, nonsocialists, normalization, notionalities, novelizations, obnubilations, opinionatedly, orientational, overinflation, reinoculation, solemnization, triamcinolone, unconditional.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: NOLITION


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4E 4F 4C 49 54 49 4F 4E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.    ---    .-..    ..    -    ..    ---    -.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001110 01001111 01001100 01001001 01010100 01001001 01001111 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#79 &#76 &#73 &#84 &#73 &#79 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 004F 004C 0049 0054 0049 004F 004E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4849464354434948

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Rhymes
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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