English Dictionary

velleity

IPA（発音記号）

/vɛˈliː.ɪ.ti/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞

The lowest degree of desire or volition; a total lack of effort to act. / A slight wish not followed by any effort to obtain.

日本語の意味

最も低いレベルの欲求や意志、つまり行動に移す努力の全く伴わない状態 / ほとんど願望が存在しながら、それに基づいた具体的な行動がなされない状態

He felt a fleeting velleity to quit his job, but he never acted on it.

彼は仕事を辞めたいというごくわずかな気持ちを一瞬感じたが、それを行動に移すことはなかった。

意味（1）

The lowest degree of desire or volition; a total lack of effort to act.

Rousseau showed through life a singular proneness for being convinced by his own eloquence; he was always his own first convert; and this reconciles his power as a writer with his weakness as a man. He and all like him mistake emotion for conviction, velleity for resolve, the brief eddy of sentiment for the midcurrent of ever-gathering faith in duty that draws to itself all the affluents of conscience and will, and gives continuity and purpose to life.

意味（2）

A slight wish not followed by any effort to obtain.

All were born late enough to breathe the atmosphere of the new poetry young; all had poetical velleities, and a certain amount, if not of originality, of capacity to write poetry. But they were not poets; they were only poetical curiosities.

velleities （ plural ）