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S vs Conation - What's the difference?

s | conation |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun conation is

(philosophy) the power or act which directs or impels to effort of any kind, whether muscular or psychical.

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    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

    References

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