The Collaborative Dictionary

Willingness \Will"ing*ness\, n. 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. [1913 Webster] Sweet is the love which comes with willingness. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] Williwaw

Word Net

willingness n : cheerful compliance; "he expressed his willingness to help" [ant: unwillingness]

Moby Thesaurus

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

English

Pronunciation

Noun

The state of being willing

Translations

Will may refer to:

Will (modal verb)
- Shall and will, comparison of the two verbs
Will (law), a legal document expressing the desires of the author with regard to the disposition of property after the author's death.
- Living will, a legal document expressing the desires of the author with regard to medical decisions, invoked in the event that the author is incapacitated and unable to act on their own behalf.
Will (philosophy), or willpower, is a philosophical concept that is defined in several different ways
- Free will, the trait that produces conscious choices and actions.
- The Will to Power, a prominent concept in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
True Will, found within the mystical system of Thelema
Will (sociology), a concept introduced by Ferdinand Tönnies in 1887
WILL, three public broadcasting stations owned by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
E.C.H. Will, Hamburg-based supplier of machinery for the paper manufacturing and converting industries
Will is a nickname for William. See William (name) for information on the name

People:

Will (comics), pen name of Willy Maltaite, a Belgian comics creator
George Will, conservative American newspaper columnist, journalist, and author

In fiction:

Will Aston, the black ranger from Power Rangers Operation Overdrive
Will Vandom, a character from W.I.T.C.H.
Will Parry, a character from His Dark Materials
Will (book), the autobiography of G. Gordon Liddy
- Will: G. Gordon Liddy, 1981 film based on Liddy book
Will, a novel by Maria Boyd
Will: The Death Trap II, a 1985 video game for the NEC PC-8801, NEC PC-9801, Fujitsu FM-7, and Sharp X1
The Will, a reality TV series that was cancelled after one episode.
Will (film) (the first title)now Rock on (film), a 2008 film featuring Gaelan Connell, Alyson Michalka and Lisa Kudrow

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