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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
spontaneous /spɒnˈteɪnɪəs/
▶adjective
  • 1 performed or occurring as a result of an unpremeditated inner impulse and without external stimulus.

    ■ (of a process or event) occurring without apparent external cause.

    ■ Biology (of movement or activity) instinctive or involuntary.

  • 2 open, natural, and uninhibited.
  • 3 archaic (of a plant) growing naturally and without being tended or cultivated.
– derivatives
spontaneity /spɒntəˈneɪɪti/ noun,
spontaneously adverb.
– origin C17: from late L. spontaneus (from (sua) sponte ‘of (one's) own accord’) + -ous.



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