WILLINGNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does willingness mean? 

• WILLINGNESS (noun)
  The noun WILLINGNESS has 1 sense:

1. cheerful compliance

  Familiarity information: WILLINGNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WILLINGNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cheerful compliance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Context example:

he expressed his willingness to help

Hypernyms ("willingness" is a kind of...):

disposition; temperament (your usual mood)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "willingness"):

eagerness; forwardness; readiness; zeal (prompt willingness)

openness; receptiveness; receptivity (willingness or readiness to receive (especially impressions or ideas))

wholeheartedness (undivided commitment or unreserved enthusiasm)

Antonym:

unwillingness (the trait of being unwilling)

Derivation:

willing (disposed or inclined toward)

 Context examples 

There can be no doubt of Mr. Crawford's willingness; but why should not more of us go?

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Mr. Gardiner declared his willingness, and Elizabeth was applied to for her approbation.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Faithfulness and willingness characterised his toil.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

"I wonder if I can get some advice from you," he began, and received an acquiescence of willingness that made his heart bound.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He fairly outstripped himself in willingness and civility; he was all smiles to everyone.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Her husband was a grave looking young man of five or six and twenty, with an air of more fashion and sense than his wife, but of less willingness to please or be pleased.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I should be extremely happy; I hope you cannot doubt my willingness to be of even the slightest use to you, replied Anne; but I suspect that you are considering me as having a higher claim on Mr Elliot, a greater right to influence him, than is really the case.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

The universe is about to reward you for your dedication, concentration, and willingness to work with Saturn’s tests over the past two years by sending Jupiter, planet of good fortune, to Capricorn on December 2, 2019, to stay until December 19, 2020—a full year.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Its being a gift of my brother's need not make the smallest difference in your accepting it, as I assure you it makes none in my willingness to part with it.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

He had fitted in wherever he found himself, been a favorite always and everywhere by virtue of holding his own at work and at play and by his willingness and ability to fight for his rights and command respect.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)