Word Meanings - WOULDING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Emotion of desire; inclination; velleity. Hammond.

Related words: (words related to WOULDING)

• DESIREFUL
  Filled with desire; eager. The desireful troops. Godfrey .
• EMOTIONALIZE
  To give an emotional character to. Brought up in a pious family where religion was not talked about emotionalized, but was accepted as the rule of thought and conduct. Froude.
• EMOTIONALISM
  The cultivation of an emotional state of mind; tendency to regard things in an emotional manner.
• VELLEITY
  The lowest degree of desire; imperfect or incomplete volition. Locke.
• DESIRER
  One who desires, asks, or wishes.
• EMOTIONED
  Affected with emotion. "The emotioned soul." Sir W. Scott.
• INCLINATION
  The angle made by two lines or planes; as, the inclination of the plane of the earth's equator to the plane of the ecliptic is about 23º 28'; the inclination of two rays of light. 5. A leaning or tendency of the mind, feelings, preferences, or
• DESIRELESS
  Free from desire. Donne.
• DESIREFULNESS
  The state of being desireful; eagerness to obtain and possess. The desirefulness of our minds much augmenteth and increaseth our pleasure. Udall.
• EMOTION
  A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings, whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the body. How different the emotions
• DESIRE
  sidus star, constellation, and hence orig., to turn the eyes from the 1. To long for; to wish for earnestly; to covet. Neither shall any man desire thy land. Ex. xxxiv. 24. Ye desire your child to live. Tennyson. 2. To express a wish
• EMOTIONAL
  Pertaining to, or characterized by, emotion; excitable; easily moved; sensational; as, an emotional nature.
• PREMOTION
  Previous motion or excitement to action.
• DISINCLINATION
  The state of being disinclined; want of propensity, desire, or affection; slight aversion or dislike; indisposition. Disappointment gave him a disinclination to the fair sex. Arbuthnot. Having a disinclination to books or business. Guardian. Syn.
• REMOTION
  1. The act of removing; removal. This remotion of the duke and her Is practice only. Shak. 2. The state of being remote; remoteness. The whitish gleam was the mask conferred by the enormity of their remotion. De Quincey.