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Willingness

The quality or state of being willing; free choice or consent of the will; freedom from reluctance; readiness of the mind to do or forbear.

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Disposition 76% connected

The act of disposing, arranging, ordering, regulating, or transferring; application; disposal; as, the disposition of a man's property by will.

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Temperament 76% connected

Internal constitution; state with respect to the relative proportion of different qualities, or constituent parts.

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Eagerness 76% connected

The state or quality of being eager; ardent desire.

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Forwardness 76% connected

The quality of being forward; cheerful readiness; promtness; as, the forwardness of Christians in propagating the gospel.

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Openness 76% connected

The quality or state of being open.

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Readiness 76% connected

The state or quality of being ready; preparation; promptness; aptitude; willingness.

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Receptiveness 76% connected

The quality of being receptive.

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Receptivity 76% connected

The state or quality of being receptive.

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Zeal 76% connected

Passionate ardor in the pursuit of anything; eagerness in favor of a person or cause; ardent and active interest; engagedness; enthusiasm; fervor.

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Involuntariness 94% connected

The quality or state of being involuntary; unwillingness; automatism.

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Involuntariness 94% connected

The quality or state of being involuntary; unwillingness; automatism.

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Abandon noun · 78% connection

A complete giving up to natural impulses; freedom from artificial constraint; careless freedom or ease.

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Agreeable adjective · 78% connection

Willing; ready to agree or consent.

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Alternative noun · 78% connection

Either of two things or propositions offered to one's choice. Thus when two things offer a choice of one only, the two things are call…

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Aversion noun · 78% connection

Opposition or repugnance of mind; fixed dislike; antipathy; disinclination; reluctance.

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Contented adjective · 78% connection

Content; easy in mind; satisfied; quiet; willing.

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Discretion noun · 78% connection

Freedom to act according to one's own judgment; unrestrained exercise of choice or will.

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Disinclination noun · 78% connection

a certain degree of unwillingness; "a reluctance to commit himself"; "his hesitancy revealed his basic indisposition"; "after some hes…

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Easily adverb · 78% connection

Readily; without reluctance; willingly.

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Elegant adjective · 78% connection

Very choice, and hence, pleasing to good taste; characterized by grace, propriety, and refinement, and the absence of every thing offe…

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Emancipate verb · 78% connection

To set free from the power of another; to liberate; as: (a) To set free, as a minor from a parent; as, a father may emancipate a child…

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Excuse verb · 78% connection

serve as a reason or cause or justification of; "Your need to sleep late does not excuse your late arrival at work"; "Her recent divor…

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Explain verb · 78% connection

serve as a reason or cause or justification of; "Your need to sleep late does not excuse your late arrival at work"; "Her recent divor…

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