Mechanical vs Involuntary - What's the difference?
mechanical | involuntary | Synonyms |
Characteristic of someone who does manual labour for a living; coarse, vulgar.
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Related to mechanics (the branch of physics that deals with forces acting on mass).
Related to mechanics (the design and construction of machines).
Done by machine.
Using mechanics (the design and construction of machines): being a machine.
As if performed by a machine: lifeless or mindless.
(of a person) Acting as if one were a machine: lifeless or mindless.
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, title= (informal) Handy with machines.
Without intention; unintentional.
Not voluntary or willing; contrary or opposed to explicit will or desire; unwilling.
Mechanical is a synonym of involuntary.
As adjectives the difference between mechanical and involuntary
is that mechanical is characteristic of someone who does manual labour for a living; coarse, vulgar while involuntary is without intention; unintentional.mechanical
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- all manner of silks were already become so vile and abject, that was any man seene to weare them, he was presently judged to be some countrie fellow, or mechanicall man.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.}}
Derived terms
* electromechanical * mechanical erasure * mechanicality * mechanically * mechanicalness * mechanical pencil * postmechanical * premechanicalinvoluntary
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He involuntarily overheard the conversation.
- He found himself the involuntary witness in the trial.