willingness

willingness
noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ general
▪ genuine
▪ apparent
▪ greater, increased
▪ growing, increasing
▪ new-found
VERB + WILLINGNESS
▪ demonstrate, display, indicate, show, signal
▪

The new government has shown a willingness to listen and learn.

▪ announce, confirm, declare, express
▪

Workers' leaders have expressed their willingness to cooperate.

▪ demand, depend on, require
▪

The success of this type of therapy depends on the patients' willingness to try to solve their problems.

PREPOSITION
▪ in your willingness
▪

In her willingness to help them, she quite forgot that she wasn't as strong as she had been.


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