spontaneous
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[edit] Etymology
Late Latin spontaneus, from Latin sponte (sua) (“‘of one's free will, voluntarily’”).
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- Rhymes: -eɪniəs
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[edit] Adjective
spontaneous (comparative more spontaneous, superlative most spontaneous)
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- Self generated; happening without any apparent external cause.
- He made a spontaneous offer of help.
- Done by one's own free choice, or without planning.
- proceeding from natural feeling or native tendency without external constraint
- arising from a momentary impulse
- controlled and directed internally : self-active : spontaneous movement characteristic of living things
- produced without being planted or without human labor : indigenous
- not apparently contrived or manipulated : natural
- Random.
- Sudden, without warning.
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Self generated; happening without any apparent external cause
Done by one's own free choice, or without planning
proceeding from natural feeling or native tendency without external constraint
arising from a momentary impulse
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controlled and directed internally
produced without being planted or without human labor
not apparently contrived or manipulated
Random
Sudden, without warning
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