Involuntary is the antonym of voluntary. An involuntary action is one that occurs without volition or will; see volition (psychology) and will (philosophy). Involuntary may also refer to:
- Involuntary (film), a 2008 Swedish film by Ruben Östlund
- "Involuntary", a song on the M. Ward album Transfiguration of Vincent
- Smooth muscle, a muscle which is the source of involuntary movements
- Involuntary Commitment Psychiatric examine and/or treatment against patients consent or lack of ability to give consent.
See also:
- Voluntary (disambiguation)
Famous quotes containing the word involuntary:
“Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)
“We are things of dry hours and the involuntary plan,
Grayed in, and gray. “Dream” makes a giddy sound, not strong
Like “rent,” “feeding a wife,” “satisfying a man.””
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.”
—Northrop Frye (b. 1912)