Spontaneous

What do we mean by spontaneous?

Happening or arising without apparent external cause; self-generated. adjective

Arising from a natural inclination or impulse and not from forethought or prompting. adjective

Unconstrained and unstudied in manner or behavior. adjective

Growing without cultivation or human labor. adjective

Proceeding from a conscious or unconscious internal impulse; occurring or done without the intervention of external causes; in a restricted sense, springing from one's own desire or volition, apart from any external suggestion or incitement.

Growing naturally, without previous human care.

Growing as native; indigenous.

In biology, instinctive or automatic, as some actions of animals which depend upon no external stimulus and are performed without apparent motive or purpose; uninfluenced by external conditions, as a change in structural character. Compare spontaneity, 2.

Synonyms Willing, etc. (see voluntary), instinctive, unbidden.

Proceeding from natural feeling, temperament, or disposition, or from a native internal proneness, readiness, or tendency, without constraint. adjective

Proceeding from, or acting by, internal impulse, energy, or natural law, without external force adjective

Produced without being planted, or without human labor. adjective

Combustion produced in a substance by the evolution of heat through the chemical action of its own elements; as, the spontaneous combustion of waste matter saturated with oil. adjective

See under Generation. adjective

Self generated; happening without any apparent external cause. adjective

Done by one's own free choice, or without planning. adjective

Proceeding from natural feeling or native tendency without external constraint adjective

Arising from a momentary impulse adjective

Controlled and directed internally : self-active : spontaneous movement characteristic of living things adjective

Produced without being planted or without human labor : indigenous adjective

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Words that are spelled similarly to spontaneous:
spontaneous, unspontaneous.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word spontaneous:
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Words that rhyme with spontaneous:
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Adjectives that are often used to describe spontaneous:
recurrent, galling, neo, drear.

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Words that sound like spontaneous:
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