English Explanatory Dictionary

self-will

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The quality of being willful and ignoring opposition.

Word forms

self-will

Etymology

From Middle English self-wil, self-wille, from Old English sylfwill, selfwill, selfwille (“self-will”), from Proto-West Germanic *selbawilljō, from Proto-Germanic *selbawiljô (“self-will”), equivalent to self- + will. Cognate with Old High German selbwillo, selpwillo, Old Norse sjalfvili.

Related words

self-willed self-willedly self-willedness
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