• Spontaneous

    Pronunciation

    • Rhymes: -eɪniÉ™s
    • Rhymes: -eɪnɪəs

    Origin

    Late Latin spontaneus, from Latin sponte (sua) ("of one's free will, voluntarily").

    Full definition of spontaneous

    Adjective

    spontaneous

    1. Self-generated; happening without any apparent external cause.He made a spontaneous offer of help.
    2. Done by one's own free choice, or without planning.
    3. proceeding from natural feeling or native tendency without external constraint
    4. arising from a momentary impulse
    5. controlled and directed internally; self-active; spontaneous movement characteristic of living things
    6. produced without being planted or without human labor; indigenousa spontaneous growth of wood
    7. not apparently contrived or manipulated; natural
    8. Random.
    9. Sudden, without warning.

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