uncoerced
Adjective: - Voluntary, not forced: Describes an action, decision, or statement made freely, without being pressured, threatened, or compelled by another person or force.
The adjective "uncoerced" is used to formally emphasize that a choice or action was made with complete free will. It is often applied in legal, psychological, or ethical contexts to describe statements, confessions, consent, or participation. - It typically modifies nouns like confession, statement, testimony, consent, agreement, decision, participation. - It is a formal term and is less common in everyday conversation.
- The judge needed to ensure the defendant's plea was uncoerced.
- Researchers must obtain uncoerced consent from all study participants.
- Her testimony was ruled admissible because it was given freely and uncoerced.
- "Uncoerced will": Refers to the faculty of making completely free and independent choices.
- The philosophy discusses the concept of an uncoerced will as the basis for moral responsibility.
- Used in contrast to "coerced" to highlight a lack of external pressure in comparative or analytical writing.
- The study compared outcomes from coerced and uncoerced interventions.
- Coerce (verb): To persuade someone to do something by using force or threats.
- Coercion (noun): The practice of persuading someone to do something by using force or threats.
- Unforced (adjective): Similar in meaning but can also mean "natural" or "effortless" (e.g., an unforced smile), not solely "not compelled."
- Voluntary
- Willing
- Unforced
- Spontaneous (when emphasizing a natural, unprompted origin)
- Coerced
- Forced
- Compulsory
- Involuntary
Note: "Uncoerced" itself is not typically used in idioms. However, it relates to key legal and ethical phrases. - Of one's own free will: An idiomatic phrase meaning voluntarily, without compulsion. - She contributed the money of her own free will. - Without duress: A legal phrase meaning without threats or coercion. - The contract was signed without duress.
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not brought about by coercion or force
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the confession was uncoerced
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