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Conation vs Spirituality - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between conation and spirituality

is that conation is (philosophy) the power or act which directs or impels to effort of any kind, whether muscular or psychical while spirituality is the quality or state of being spiritual.

conation

English

Noun

(wikipedia conation) (en noun)
  • (philosophy) The power or act which directs or impels to effort of any kind, whether muscular or psychical.
  • * 1899 , George Frederick Stout, A Manual of Psychology , p. 234:
    • Any pleasing sense-experience, when it has once taken place, will, on subsequent occasions, give rise to a conation , when its conditions are only partially repeated...
  • *1957 , Lawrence Durrell, Justine :
  • *:You can sit quiet and hear the processes going on, going about their business; volition, desire, will, cognition, passion, conation .
  • * 1987 , Marshall J. Farr, 'Cognition, Affect, and Motivation: Issues, Directions and Perspectives Toward Unity', in Conative and Affective Process Analysis , p. 347:
    • [The] 'purposive conscious striving' aspect of conation is very likely a concept we need to treat separately if we are to study human motivation successfully...

    Related terms

    * conative

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    spirituality

    English

    (wikipedia spirituality)

    Noun

    (spiritualities)
  • The quality or state of being spiritual.
    • A pleasure made for the soul, suitable to its spirituality . — South.
    If this light be not spiritual, yet it approacheth nearest to spirituality . — Sir Walter Raleigh.
    Much of our spirituality and comfort in public worship depends on the state of mind in which we come. — Bickersteth.
  • Concern for that which is unseen and intangible, as opposed to physical or mundane.
  • Appreciation for religious values.
  • (obsolete) That which belongs to the church, or to a person as an ecclesiastic, or to religion, as distinct from temporalities.
    • During the vacancy of a see, the archbishop is guardian of the spiritualities thereof. — Blackstone.
  • (obsolete) An ecclesiastical body; the whole body of the clergy, as distinct from, or opposed to, the temporality.
    • Five entire subsidies were granted to the king by the spirituality . — Fuller.