Spontaneous
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -eɪniəs
- Rhymes: -eɪnɪəs
Origin
Late Latin spontaneus, from Latin sponte (sua) ("of one's free will, voluntarily").
Full definition of spontaneous
Adjective
spontaneous
- 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; indigenousa spontaneous growth of wood
- not apparently contrived or manipulated; natural
- Random.
- Sudden, without warning.
Synonyms
- (Self-generated) autonomous
- (Done by one's own free choice) autonomous
- (Proceeding from natural feeling...) autonomous