conation

1. (philosophy) The power or act which directs or impels to effort of any kind, whether muscular or psychical.Examples: "Any pleasing sense-experience, when it has once taken place, will, on subsequent occasions, give rise to a conation, when its conditions are only partially repeated..."; "You can sit quiet and hear the processes going on, going about their business; volition, desire, will, cognition, passion, conation."; "[The] 'purposive conscious striving' aspect of conation is very likely a concept we need to treat separately if we are to study human motivation successfully […]"countableuncountable