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willingness

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will·ing  (wlng)
adj.
1. Disposed or inclined; prepared: I am willing to overlook your mistakes.
2. Acting or ready to act gladly; eagerly compliant: "The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak" Matthew 26:41.
3. Done, given, accepted, or borne voluntarily or ungrudgingly. See Synonyms at voluntary.
4. Of or relating to exercise of the will; volitional.

willing·ly adv.
willing·ness n.
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Noun1.willingness - cheerful compliance; "he expressed his willingness to help"
disposition, temperament - your usual mood; "he has a happy disposition"
eagerness, readiness, zeal, forwardness - prompt willingness; "readiness to continue discussions"; "they showed no eagerness to spread the gospel"; "they disliked his zeal in demonstrating his superiority"; "he tried to explain his forwardness in battle"
receptiveness, receptivity, openness - willingness or readiness to receive (especially impressions or ideas); "he was testing the government's receptiveness to reform"; "this receptiveness is the key feature in oestral behavior, enabling natural mating to occur"; "their receptivity to the proposal"
wholeheartedness - undivided commitment or unreserved enthusiasm
involuntariness, unwillingness - the trait of being unwilling; "his unwillingness to cooperate vetoed every proposal I made"; "in spite of our warnings he plowed ahead with the involuntariness of an automaton"

willingness
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willingness [ˈwɪlɪŋnɪs] nbuena voluntad
willingness [ˈwɪlɪŋnɪs] nbonne volonté
willingness [ˈwɪlɪŋnɪs] willing n (= readiness) → Bereitschaft f (= enthusiasm); Bereitwilligkeit f
willingness [ˈwɪlɪŋnɪs] nbuona volontà


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Here there is the greatest willingness, and where the willingness is great the difficulties cannot be great if you will only follow those men to whom I have directed your attention.
With the highest admiration for Poe's genius, and a willingness to let it alone for more than ordinary irregularity, we were led by common report to expect a very capricious attention to his duties, and occasionally a scene of violence and difficulty.
He is next to Tolstoy in his willingness to give himself for his kind; if he would rather give himself in fighting than in suffering wrong, I do not know that his self-sacrifice is less in degree.
 
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