Velleity

RantWoman is trying to stay on track. More precisely she is trying to stay on several tracks at once. Okay, she WAS reading pleasure email, already on a nonlinear route to the tracks she needs to run today. Then the pleasure email served up a link to the daily entry on dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/archive/2009/03/28.html

Today's word is velleity, paraphrasing, the faintest hint of volition, or a little bit of will.

RantWoman is unsure whether the cited usages, including a writer RantWoman both enjoys and characterizes as "one of her favorite linguistic fascists" make her feel confident enough to use the word in her own discourse. That is not the important part of RantWoman's delight. The delight is just that the online Word of the Day gets to be another arrow in RantWoman's quivver of pleasurable diversions, another link in RantWoman's sense of digital inclusion in a world of standards and love of language and lexicographical diversity, another reason that long stretches of companionship with her squawking box of a computer are more than just a path to work but also a path to a rich life.

Okay, now back to the multiple other tracks RantWoman needs to run.