Talk:Velleity

Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche describes the velleity of an artist as ...

Surely he was writing in german and using a german term. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 139.2.4.137 (talk) 11:02, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

The word in German is in fact Velleität. There are other problems with this section, however: Nietzsche does not have a "free-will theorem" (whatever that is), and describing him as "championing" will to power is quite strange. Crespodm (talk) 17:36, 14 May 2015 (UTC) The whole article is strange, very badly written, in fact it's almost complete nonsense. What exactly constitutes velleity is surely a matter of perspective or opinion. There is no discernable concept which can be isolated from any other term. A whim or a fancy would suffice.--Fecknuts (talk) 06:26, 21 August 2022 (UTC)

Effortfulness
This concept seems to be suspiciously like velleity. Since it's been proposed for either merger or deletion, this might be the better target for an otherwise non-notable fringe topic. Bearian (talk) 16:48, 11 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Oppose They are almost opposites. Velleity is an empty desire for something, devoid of any impulse to make it happen.  That seems an apt description for the common behaviour of drive-by tagging.  Because performance of the required task seems to require effort, it doesn't get done.  Andrew D. (talk) 19:41, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

Mutually Exclusive
Is this a mutually exclusive word? Tiger27 (talk) 15:58, 14 January 2017 (UTC)