Voluntary vs Noncoercive - What's the difference?
voluntary | noncoercive |
Done, given, or acting of one's own free will.
* N. W. Taylor
* Alexander Pope
Done by design or intention; intentional.
Working or done without payment.
Endowed with the power of willing.
* Hooker
Of or relating to voluntaryism.
(obsolete) Voluntarily.
*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.4:
*:And all that els was pretious and deare, / The sea unto him voluntary brings [...].
(music) A short piece of music, often having improvisation, played on a solo instrument
A volunteer
Not coercive; free of coercion
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As adjectives the difference between voluntary and noncoercive
is that voluntary is done, given, or acting of one's own free will while noncoercive is not coercive; free of coercion.As an adverb voluntary
is voluntarily.As a noun voluntary
is a short piece of music, often having improvisation, played on a solo instrument.voluntary
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- That sin or guilt pertains exclusively to voluntary action is the true principle of orthodoxy.
- She fell to lust a voluntary prey.
- If a man accidentally kills another by lopping a tree, it is not voluntary manslaughter.
- God did not work as a necessary, but a voluntary , agent, intending beforehand, and decreeing with himself, that which did outwardly proceed from him.
- a voluntary church, in distinction from an established or state church
Synonyms
* discretionary * optional * willful * volitionalAntonyms
* compulsory * involuntary * obligatoryDerived terms
* voluntarilyAdverb
(en adverb)Noun
(voluntaries)noncoercive
English
Alternative forms
*non-coerciveAdjective
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