| Main Entry: | fancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | impulse, urge |
Synonyms: |
caprice, conceit, conception, contrariness, creation, cup of tea, desire, druthers, flash, fool's paradise, groove*, humor, idea, image, imagination, impression, inclination, irrationality, liking, mind, notion, perverseness, pleasure, thing*, thought, vagary, velleity, visualization, weakness for, whim, will |
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dislike, hate |
| Main Entry: | free will |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | free choice |
Synonyms: |
assent, choice, conation, consent, desire, determination, discretion, free choice, free decision, freedom, inclination, intention, mind, one's discretion, one's own choice, one's own will, option, own say so, own sweet way, person's full intent and purpose, pleasure, power, say so, velleity, volition, voluntary decision, willingness, wish |
Antonyms: |
responsibility |
| Main Entry: | inclination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tendency, bent |
Synonyms: |
affection, appetite, aptitude, aptness, attachment, attraction, bias, capability, capacity, cup of tea, desire, disposition, drift, druthers, fancy, fondness, groove*, idiosyncrasy, impulse, leaning, liking, mind, movement, partiality, penchant, persuasion, pleasure, predilection, predisposition, preference, prejudice, proclivity, proneness, propensity, slant*, soft spot, stomach*, susceptibility, taste, temperament, thing*, trend, turn*, type, urge, velleity, weakness, whim, will, wish |
| Main Entry: | liking |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fondness, taste |
Synonyms: |
affection, affinity, appetite, appreciation, attachment, attraction, bent, bias, desire, devotion, fancy, favoritism, inclination, love, mind, palate, partiality, passion, penchant, pleasure, predilection, preference, proneness, propensity, relish, soft spot, stomach, sympathy, tendency, tooth, velleity, weakness, will |
Antonyms: |
dislike, hate, hatred |
| Main Entry: | pleasure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | will, inclination |
Synonyms: |
choice, command, desire, fancy, liking, mind, option, preference, purpose, velleity, want, wish |
Antonyms: |
dislike, hate, hatred |
| Main Entry: | will |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | personal choice |
Synonyms: |
aim, appetite, attitude, character, conviction, craving, decision, decisiveness, decree, design, desire, determination, discipline, discretion, disposition, fancy, feeling, hankering, heart's desire, inclination, intention, liking, longing, mind, option, passion, pining, pleasure, power, preference, prerogative, purpose, resolution, resolve, self-control, self-discipline, self-restraint, temperament, urge, velleity, volition, willfulness, willpower, wish, wishes, yearning |
| Main Entry: | fancy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun, verb |
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Adjectives: |
fancy, air-built, air-drawn, bucolic, chimerical, chthonic, commentitious, creative, demiurgic, enthusiastic, excogitous, extravagant, fabulous, fairy, fairylike, fanatic, fanciful, fantastical, fertile, fictive, flighty, haptic, high-flown, ideal, illusory, imaginary, imaginative, imagined, imagining, implicit, in the clouds, inventive, legendary, mythic, mythological, notional, oneiric, oneirotic, original, pastoral, pretend, quixotic, romantic, supermundane, unreal, unsubstantial, utopian, visile, visionary, whimsical
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| Main Entry: | pleasure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
Related
Adjectives: |
pleasure, taking, queme, raptured, rapturous, ravished, ravishing, refreshing, resigned, satisfactory, satisfied, saturnian, seducing, sensual, seraphic, serene, suant, suboptimal, sweet, sybaritic, thrice happy, thrilling, to one's liking, to one's mind, to one's taste, tolerable, transported, unafflicted, unalloyed, unmolested, unplagued, unrepining, unvexed, voluptuous, welcome, welcome as the roses in May, welcomed, wilcweme, winning, winsome, with a joyful face, with sparkling eyes, without alloy
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| Concept: | Will. |
| Category: | 1. Acts of volition |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
will, volition, conation, velleity; liberum arbitrium; will and pleasure, free will; freedom; discretion; option (choice); voluntariness; spontaneity, spontaneousness; originality., pleasure, wish, mind; desire; frame of mind (inclination); intention; predetermination; self-control, determination (resolution) [more]; force of will.
-verbs
will, list; see fit, think fit; determine (resolve); enjoin; settle (choose); volunteer., have a will of one's own; do what one chooses (freedom); have it all one's own way; have one's will, have one's own way., use one's discretion, exercise one's discretion; take upon oneself, take one's own course, take the law into one's own hands; do of one's own accord, do upon one's own authority; originate (cause).
-adjectives
voluntary, volitional, willful; free; optional; discretional, discretionary; volitient, volitive., minded (willing); prepense (predetermined); intended; autocratic; unbidden (bid [more]); spontaneous; original (casual); unconstrained.
-adverbs
voluntarily; at will, at pleasure; a volonte, a discretion; al piacere; ad libitum, ad arbitrium; as one thinks proper, as it seems good to; a beneplacito., of one's own accord, of one's own free will; proprio motu, suo motu, ex meromotu; out of one's own head; by choice; purposely (intentionally); deliberately.
-phrases
stet pro ratione voluntas; sic volo sic jubeo; a vostro beneplacito; beneficium accipere libertatem est vendere; Deus vull; was man nicht kann meiden muss man wilig leiden.
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Antonyms: |
necessity |
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| Concept: | Pleasure. |
| Category: | 1. Passive Affections |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
pleasure, gratification, enjoyment, fruition; oblection, delection; relish, zest; gusto (physical pleasure); satisfaction (content); complacency., well-being; good; snugness, comfort, ease; cushion; sans souci, mind at ease., joy, gladness, delight, glee, cheer, sunshine; cheerfulness., treat, refreshment; amusement; luxury., mens sana in corpore sano [Juvenal]., happiness, felicity, bliss; beatitide, beautification; enchantment, transport, rapture, ravishment, ecstasy; summum bonum; paradise, elysium ( heaven) [more]; third heaven, seventh heaven; unalloyed happiness; hedonics, hedonism., honeymoon; palmy days, halcyon days; golden age, golden time; Dixie, Dixie's land; Saturnia regna, Arcadia, happy valley, Agapemone.
-verbs
be pleased; feel pleasure, experience pleasure; joy; enjoy oneself; be in clover, be in elysium [more]; tread on enchanted ground; fall into raptures, go into raptures., feel at home, breathe freely, bask in the sunshine., be pleased with; receive pleasure, derive pleasure from; take pleasure in; delight in, rejoice in, indulge in, luxuriate in; gloat over (physical pleasure); enjoy, relish, like; love; take to, take a fancy to; have a liking for; enter into the spirit of., take in good part., treat oneself to, solace oneself with.
-adjectives
pleased; not sorry; glad, gladsome; pleased as Punch., happy, blest, blessed, blissful, beatified; happy as a clam at high water [U.S.], happy as a king, happy as the day is long; thrice happy, ter quaterque beatus; enjoying; joyful (in spirits); hedonic., in a blissful state, in paradise [more], in raptures, in ectstasies, in a transport of delight., comfortable (physical pleasure); at ease; content; sans souci.
-adverbs
happily; with pleasure (willingfully); with glee n..
-phrases
one's heart leaping with joy.
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Antonyms: |
pain |
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