Definition of "conative" []

• Of or pertaining to a striving action. (adjective)

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• "In these cases we have what Jakobson calls the conative function, what other linguists refer to as the appellative, imperative or directive function."
• "The index identifies people's natural instincts (or "conative" skills), so they can choose environments and situations where their instinctual style thrives."
• "Meinong based values on feelings and not on desires, and he critically contrasted his kind of emotivism to Ehrenfels™ voluntarism, a more conative, desire-based theory of values."