free will Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the power of making free choices unconstrained by external agencies
    discretion.

WordNet

Free will
Definitions
  1. A will free from improper coercion or restraint.
    To come thus was I not constrained, but did On my free will. Shak.
  2. The power asserted of moral beings of willing or choosing without the restraints of physical or absolute necessity.

Webster 1913