What's the difference between willing and willingness?

Willing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Will
  • (v. t.) Free to do or to grant; having the mind inclined; not opposed in mind; not choosing to refuse; disposed; not averse; desirous; consenting; complying; ready.
  • (v. t.) Received of choice, or without reluctance; submitted to voluntarily; chosen; desired.
  • (v. t.) Spontaneous; self-moved.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And would all Labour cabinet ministers be as willing to work closely with Lib Dem ministers of state, as happens now, though with some spiky exceptions?
  • (2) Ender nails as well as three forms of interlocking nails, Brooker-Wills (B-W), Klenm-Schellman (K-S), and Grosse-Kempf (G-K), were implanted in cadaver femora.
  • (3) Other critics, even if they were unsure of the lasting relevance, were willing to give Tillmans the benefit of the doubt.
  • (4) It acts as a one-stop shop bringing together credit unions and other organisations, such as Five Lamps , a charity providing loans, and white-goods providers willing to sell products with low-interest repayments.
  • (5) A system for detecting such cases was established through liaison with other hospital peer review committees or any physician or nurse who was privy to specific information and willing to submit it in writing.
  • (6) During a time of ongoing industrial action in response to a continuing position of contractual imposition, there is obvious and significant discontent amongst the junior doctor workforce.” Junior doctors are only willing to support the review after the current industrial dispute is resolved, the statement ends.
  • (7) He also said that at least under the Labour government Gordon Brown had been willing to meet the Argentinians.
  • (8) Only 4% are willing to face the other option – paying for content with no ads.
  • (9) In some respects, the impasse is a vindication of the UK electorate’s decision to leave the EU and pursue its own agreements.” He said when the UK government was free to make its own trade deals after leaving the EU, it should target willing partners such as emerging markets.
  • (10) "We are uncertain of the structure, deliverability and conditionality of what is proposed by Moelis, but we are willing to engage with them to investigate further.
  • (11) The bill hands £80bn to new GP commissioning boards and will allow any willing provider to compete to provide services.
  • (12) One of the reasons consumers are willing to take these cases on through the small claims process is because they are not exposed to the other side's costs."
  • (13) The Fe-protein and the MoFe-protein of the Azotobacter vinelandii nitrogenase complex can be chemically cross-linked by 1-ethyl-3-(3-dimethylaminopropyl)carbodiimide (Willing, A., Georgiadis, M.M., Rees, D. C., and Howard, J.
  • (14) During his visit to Europe he did not speak at length on the subject of the shooting, but seemed more willing than Giuliani to distance the Dallas tragedy from the Black Lives Matter movement.
  • (15) "Only a minority of doctors would be willing to participate in such acts," the authors clear-thinkingly object.
  • (16) But it is unlikely that we are any more willing to tolerate the negative fallout from regulation today than we were in the 1970s, and therefore we predict that the proportion of GNP going to health care will continue to grow throughout the remainder of this century.
  • (17) Before the vote was announced, Dimon told shareholders the bank was willing to "pay attention to what we've heard."
  • (18) The majority of EU delegations are willing to make a compromise on an apology, but some are still unable to accept this."
  • (19) That is likely to happen under plans by the health secretary, Andrew Lansley , to let "any willing provider" – part of the health service, a private healthcare provider or a charity – be paid out of NHS funds to treat NHS patients.
  • (20) Christina Wille, director, Insecurity Insight , Bellevue, Switzerland Demand data from those you fund : Gender sensitive donors in humanitarian aid should ask those they fund for better reporting on sex segregated violence.

Willingness


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality or state of being willing; free choice or consent of the will; freedom from reluctance; readiness of the mind to do or forbear.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is also a clear sign of our willingness and determination to step up engagement across the whole range of the EU-Turkey relationship to fully reflect the strategic importance of our relations.
  • (2) This article describes a method of selecting a potentially successful strategy using a combination of two factors: change target and level of change willingness and ability.
  • (3) The arrest of the Washington Post’s Tehran correspondent Jason Rezaian and his journalist wife, Yeganeh Salehi, as well as a photographer and her partner, is a brutal reminder of the distance between President Hassan Rouhani’s reforming promises and his willingness to act.
  • (4) These steps signify a willingness for engagement not seen before, but they have been overshadowed by the "nuclear crisis" triggered in October 2002 when Pyongyang admitted to having the "know-how", but not the technology, for a highly enriched uranium route to nuclear weapons.
  • (5) The chances of Sam Allardyce becoming the next England manager have been enhanced by his willingness to help the Football Association to mentor a young assistant who would be groomed as his successor.
  • (6) Kim Kardashian: Hollywood could benefit from a sharper script and more willingness – or freedom, which may be the issue given the game’s official status – to poke at the culture it’s representing.
  • (7) Equally important is a frequent review of medications and a willingness to alter regimens as situations require.
  • (8) It raises serious concerns about the government's willingness to let the public help shape the future of England's forests.
  • (9) There also seems to be a greater willingness of the surgeon to operate on these patients.
  • (10) The effectiveness of treatment depends on the efforts of the given institution to solve this problem and on the willingness of the staff to adapt new diagnostic and therapeutic methods.
  • (11) Consequently, men's SES and their willingness and ability to invest affection and resources in relationships may often outweigh the effects of their physical attractiveness in women's actual selection of partners.
  • (12) MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES--The number of adult long term mentally ill patients whom general practitioners estimate they have on their lists and general practitioners' willingness to take responsibility for them.
  • (13) The company’s success reflects affluent shoppers’ willingness to pay extra for products perceived to be of high quality, made with premium ingredients.
  • (14) Its willingness to ignore diplomatic convention and use its Kuala Lumpur embassy to conduct an extraterritorial assassination will be seen as setting a dire precedent that cannot be allowed to stand.
  • (15) Second, share prices have been increasing all year in response to prevarication by the US central bank, which has struggled to raise interest rates despite signalling a willingness to do so.
  • (16) In his previous job, as BBC Vision director, he made a generally favourable impression on media reporters, especially those from papers hostile to the corporation, for his willingness to attend friendly and gossipy dinners without being chaperoned by BBC minders.
  • (17) The availability of effective dysmenorrhea therapy with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) has been accompanied by greater expectations of relief on the part of the patient, increased willingness to seek medical help, a more rational approach to patient management by physicians, changes in attitude toward women with primary dysmenorrhea, and a debunking of the myths associated with dysmenorrhea.
  • (18) If there's a single thread running through Anderson's diverse output, it's an engagement with new technologies and a willingness to put the usually hidden parts of music and performance – mixing boards, rigs, filters – out in the open.
  • (19) The coalition thinks appointing Green to find further savings in this area demonstrates its willingness to allow others outside government to look at the books, but it is also banking on benefiting from the touch of a renowned businessman when what are likely to be hugely unpopular cuts are announced.
  • (20) Not for the first time, the public willingness to forget all about Max Mosley is frustrated by Max Mosley's determination to be forgotten about.