Definition of velleity:
(n) :
the lowest degree of
desire or
volition, with no effort to act; a slight
wish not followed by any effort to obtain
"1973: This connoisseuse of "splendid weaknesses", run not by any lust or even velleity but by vacuum: by the absence of human hope. -- Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow"
Definition of velleity:
(n) :
the lowest degree of
desire or
volition, with no effort to act; a slight
wish not followed by any effort to obtain
"1973: This connoisseuse of "splendid weaknesses", run not by any lust or even velleity but by vacuum: by the absence of human hope. -- Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow"