spontaneous

IPA: spɑntˈeɪniʌs

adjective

  • 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 or conscious 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 cultivation or labor.
  • Random.
  • Sudden, without warning.
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Examples of "spontaneous" in Sentences

  • Her action was spontaneous.
  • Spontaneous debate is the exception.
  • In the movie, the decision is spontaneous.
  • Improvisation is the spontaneous creation of music.
  • Darwin, I beliieve used the term spontaneous variations.
  • In this monocation, the chloride spontaneously dissociates.
  • Spontaneity means the quality of being spontaneous and coming from.
  • The noun form, 'spontaneity', refers to the quality of being spontaneous.
  • You know, we have a lot of new volunteers who have -- they're just what we call spontaneous volunteers.
  • The term spontaneous abortion is defined in the “Management of Spontaneous Abortion” by Dr. Greibel, Dr Halvorsen, Dr Golemon, and Dr. Day.
  • The immediate force which works this change, the life principle of things, is, in the case of organic beings, a subtle something which we call spontaneous variation.
  • Representatives of the state government say the state doesn't back the group, which they call a spontaneous movement by people defending themselves from the Naxalites.
  • "One thing sure," continued the farmer, a little uneasily, "that fire must have been caused by what they call spontaneous combustion; or else somebody set it on purpose."
  • We think that when we deal with medicine in brain first, the real source of what he calls spontaneous healing is brain chemistry, and that when we change brain chemistry, we change the mind and facilitate these spontaneous healings and transformations of human health.
  • Thus, the term spontaneous order may be used to refer strictly to voluntary orders — that is, forms of social coordination which emerge from the free actions of many different people, as opposed to coordination that arises from some people being forced to do what other people tell them to do.

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