Velleity
Curious to me: low in passion, I guess. I looked it up,
and found the Latin, but just wondering about its
development.
Velleity
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Velleity
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Great word, Luke. Wherever did you find it?
I admit I'm having troubles figuring out how to use it. Would this work:
A group is trying to decide what to do. Someone says, "Hey, Slava, you suggested X." The response, "Well, that was really just a velleity."
I admit I'm having troubles figuring out how to use it. Would this work:
A group is trying to decide what to do. Someone says, "Hey, Slava, you suggested X." The response, "Well, that was really just a velleity."
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- Great Grand Panjandrum
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Great word, Luke. Wherever did you find it?
I admit I'm having troubles figuring out how to use it. Would this work:
A group is trying to decide what to do. Someone says, "Hey, Slava, you suggested X." The response, "Well, that was really just a velleity."
I am not quite sure how to use it either, and probably
would not very often. I was reading a newsmagazine
story and the sentence was: "I do have some
velleity to continue this conversation elsewhere". It is
probably from the Latin "velle" to "wish", but I have
not had the velleity to look it up (yuk). Just a word
for discussion since we seem to have a good group
of people on this site discussing lots of good stuff.
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Re: Velleity
Found in Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary that they have a comments section. In that section there are several excellent examples of this word's use.
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