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Definition of Involuntary
Involuntary
Not having will or the power of choice.

Not under the influence or control of the will; not voluntary; as, the involuntary movements of the body; involuntary muscle fibers.

Not proceeding from choice; done unwillingly; reluctant; compulsory; as, involuntary submission.

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Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
Mark Twain

Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.
Blaise Pascal

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.
Blaise Pascal

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
W. H. Auden

Wonder is involuntary praise.
Edward Young

Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary exile from ourselves and our own past.
John Thorn

The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd.
Sarah Bernhardt

I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release.
John Forbes Nash, Jr.

Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause.
William J. Brennan, Jr.

An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys.
Iain Sinclair



Involuntary Translations
involuntary in German is unfreiwillig
involuntary in Norwegian is ufrivillig
involuntary in Spanish is involuntario
involuntary in Swedish is ofrivillig


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