spontaneous
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Late Latin spontāneus.
adj
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Self-generated; happening without any apparent external cause. He made a spontaneous offer of help.a make spontaneous decision -
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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