spontaneous: meaning and definitions

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What is spontaneous?

What is spontaneous?

  • Happening or arising without apparent external cause; self-generated: a microorganism capable of spontaneous movement.
  • Arising from a natural inclination or impulse and not from forethought or prompting: spontaneous laughter; a spontaneous protest.
  • Unconstrained and unstudied in manner or behavior: a spontaneous personality.
  • Growing without cultivation or human labor: spontaneous vegetation.

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