volition

…English speakers borrowed volition from French in the 17th century, using it at first to mean an act of choosing, a meaning Herman Melville employed in Moby Dick with these words, almost simultaneously with a mighty volition of ungraduated instantaneous swiftness, the white whale darted through the weltering sea.…

…Both volition and voluntary ultimately come from the Latin word vele, meaning to wish or to will.…

…When you do something of your own volition, you do it voluntarily, which makes sense.…