velleity

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

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

   “This connoisseuse of “splendid weaknesses”, run not by any lust or even velleity but by vacuum: by the absence of human hope.”

2. isim 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.”