"willingness" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈwɪlɪŋnəs/ [UK, US] Audio: en-us-willingness.ogg Forms: willingnesses [plural]
Etymology: From willing + -ness. Etymology templates: {{affix|en|willing|-ness}} willing + -ness Head templates: {{en-noun|-|+}} willingness (usually uncountable, plural willingnesses)
  1. The state of being willing Tags: uncountable, usually Translations (state of being willing): պատրաստակամություն (patrastakamutʻyun) (Armenian), охота (ohota) [feminine] (Bulgarian), 願意 (Chinese Mandarin), 愿意 (yuànyi) (Chinese Mandarin), ochota [feminine] (Czech), villighed (Danish), halukkuus (Finnish), disposición [feminine] (Galician), Willigkeit [feminine] (German), Bereitschaft [feminine] (German), sástacht [feminine] (Irish), volontà (Italian), disponibilità (Italian), же́лба (žélba) [feminine] (Macedonian), во́лја (vólja) [feminine] (Macedonian), подго́твеност (podgótvenost) [feminine] (Macedonian), спре́мност (sprémnost) [feminine] (Macedonian), arryltys [masculine] (Manx), arryltid [masculine] (Manx), aggindys [masculine] (Manx), villighet [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), chęć [feminine] (Polish), ochota [feminine] (Polish), disposição [feminine] (Portuguese), boa vontade [Brazil, feminine] (Portuguese), voință [feminine] (Romanian), voluntariedad [feminine] (Spanish), alacridad [feminine] (Spanish), remango [masculine] (Spanish), pagkamayloob (Tagalog), gönüllülük (Turkish)

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "state of being willing",
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      "sense": "state of being willing",
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      "sense": "state of being willing",
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      "sense": "state of being willing",
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      "sense": "state of being willing",
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      "sense": "state of being willing",
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      "sense": "state of being willing",
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.