involuntary
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
involuntary/ɪnˈvɒləntri/
▶adjective
- 1 done without conscious control.
■ (especially of muscles or nerves) concerned in bodily processes that are not under the control of the will.
- 2 done against someone's will.
– derivatives
involuntarily adverb,
involuntariness noun.
involuntarily adverb,
involuntariness noun.
'involuntary' also found in these Oxford entries:
antispasmodic
- athetosis
- bed-wetting
- blepharospasm
- bruxism
- chorea
- convulsion
- coprolalia
- cramp
- encopresis
- enuresis
- hiccup
- jump
- knee-jerk
- neurotomy
- nocturnal emission
- nystagmus
- palilalia
- palsy
- passive smoking
- peristalsis
- sneeze
- spasm
- spontaneous
- stammer
- stutter
- tardive dyskinesia
- Tourette's syndrome
- tremor
- wet dream
- wince
