free will

• POS: Noun Phrase

CIDE DICTIONARY

free will,  

•  A will free from improper coercion or restraint.  [1913 Webster]

  "To come thus was I not constrained, but did
  On my free will."  [1913 Webster]
•  The power asserted of moral beings of willing or choosing without the restraints of physical or absolute necessity.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

free will

alternativity, animus, appetence, appetency, appetite, autonomousness, autonomy, choice, choosing, co-optation, co-option, command, conation, conatus, decision, desire, determination, discretion, disposition, election, fancy, first choice, free choice, free decision, full consent, gratuitousness, inclination, independence, intention, liking, lust, mind, noncontingent free will, objective, option, passion, pick, pleasure, preference, preoption, resolution, say, say-so, selection, self-action, self-activity, self-determination, sexual desire, spontaneity, spontaneousness, the pick, unforcedness, velleity, volition, voluntariness, voluntarism, voluntaryism, volunteer, volunteering, will, will power, wish

ROGET THESAURUS

free will

Will

N will, volition, conation, velleity, liberum arbitrium, will and pleasure, free will, freedom, discretion, option, voluntariness, spontaneity, spontaneousness, originality, pleasure, wish, mind, desire, frame of mind, intention, predetermination, selfcontrol, determination, force of will, voluntary, volitional, willful, free, optional, discretional, discretionary, volitient, volitive, minded, prepense, intended, autocratic, unbidden &c (bid), spontaneous, original, unconstrained, 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 won accord, of one's own free will, proprio motu, suo motu, ex meromotu, out of one's won head, by choice, purposely, deliberately, stet pro ratione voluntas, sic volo sic jubeo, a vostro beneplacito, beneficium accipere libertatem est vendere, Deus vult, was man nicht kann meiden muss man willig leiden.