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Definitions
The power or act which directs or impels to effort of any kind, whether muscular or psychical.
Word origin
Learned borrowing from Latin cōnātiō (“an act of attempting”).
Used in a sentence
“Any pleasing sense-experience, when it has once taken place, will, on subsequent occasions, give rise to a conation, when its conditions are only partially repeated...”
“You can sit quiet and hear the processes going on, going about their business; volition, desire, will, cognition, passion, conation.”
“[The] 'purposive conscious striving' aspect of conation is very likely a concept we need to treat separately if we are to study human motivation successfully […]”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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