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Webster 1913 Edition
Conative
Co′na-tive
(? or ?)
, Adj.
[See
Conatus
.] Of or pertaining to conation.
This division of mind into the three great classes of the cognitive faculties, the feelings, . . . and the exertive or
conative
powers, . . . was first promulgated by Kant. Sir W. Hamilton.
Definition 2024
conative
conative
English
Alternative forms
- connative
Adjective
conative (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to a striving action.
- The conative, as opposed to the cognitive or affective, relates to purposeful, but not necessarily ultimately rational, action.
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of a striving action
