free will

free will

noun

Definition of FREE WILL

the act or power of making one's own choices or decisions <all of the workers at the homeless shelter are unpaid and are there of their own free will>

Synonyms accord, autonomy, choice, self-determination, volition, will

Related Words election, preference, selection; bent, devices, disposition, inclination, leaning, partiality, penchant, predilection, predisposition, proclivity, propensity, tendency; alternative, discretion, option, pick, way

Near Antonyms coercion, compulsion, constraint, duress, force, pressure