noun
Etymology: Middle English fre wil, from fre free + wil, will will, noun
1. : the power asserted of moral beings of willing or choosing within certain limitations or with respect to certain matters without the restraints of physical or divinely imposed necessity or outside causal law : spontaneous will or partially causeless volition
2. : the ability to choose between alternative possibilities in such a way that the choice and action are to some extent creatively determined by the conscious subject at the time