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This isn't nolens volens, but it is at least a second cousin:
willy-nilly
Function: adverb or adjective
Etymology: alteration of will I nill I or will ye nill ye or will he nill he
1 : by compulsion : without choice
(I don't include the 'spontaneous' definition #2 on purpose here because that's not a second cousin.)
unwillingness
Here are two very good words for that state: nolleity and nolition (n.).
willingness
Then there are velleity: just a wish to do something
And volition: a stronger, active determination to do something than mere velleity
So, nolens is like nolleity/nolition...
And volens is like velleity/volition...
And we can pounce the cat and have our nolleity velleity and nolition volition, I suppose.
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