conative

About 0.17 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Of or pertaining to a striving action.
2. noun An utterance that implies striving.

   The conative, as opposed to the cognitive or affective, relates to purposeful, but not necessarily ultimately rational, action.

Similar words

connative affectual connotational volitive conceptive actional tendential propensive contentional connotatory

Often followed by

and tendencies or aspect function tendency aspects states dispositions