Volition vs Avocation - What's the difference?
volition | avocation |
A conscious choice or decision.
The mental power or ability of choosing; the will.
(obsolete) A calling away; a diversion.
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 204:
A hobby or recreational or leisure pursuit.
* 1934 , Robert Frost, Two Tramps in Mud Time
*:But yield who will to their separation,
*:My object in living is to unite
*:My avocation and my vocation
*:As my two eyes make one in sight.
That which calls one away from one's regular employment or vocation.
Pursuits; duties; affairs which occupy one's time; usual employment; vocation.
As nouns the difference between volition and avocation
is that volition is a conscious choice or decision while avocation is (obsolete) a calling away; a diversion.volition
English
Noun
(en noun)- Out of all the factors that can influence a person's decision, none can match the power of his or her own volition .
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(wikipedia avocation)Noun
(en noun)- But though she could neither sleep nor rest in her bed, yet, having no avocation from it, she was found there by her father at his return from Allworthy's, which was not till past ten o'clock in the morning.