free will
noun /ˌfriː ˈwɪl/
/ˌfriː ˈwɪl/
[uncountable]Idioms - the power to make your own decisions about what to do, without being controlled by God, fate or circumstancesTopics Preferences and decisionsc2
Idioms
of your own free will
- because you want to do something rather than because somebody has told or forced you to do it
- She left of her own free will.