Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The quality or condition of being spontaneous.
- noun Spontaneous behavior, impulse, or movement.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Spontaneous character or quality; that character of any action of any subject by virtue of which it takes place without being caused by anything distinguishable from the subject itself.
- noun In biology, the fact of apparently automatic change in structure, or activity in function, of animals and plants, whereby new characters may be acquired, or certain actions performed, under no influence of external conditions or stimulus; animal or vegetable automatism.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being spontaneous, or acting from native feeling, proneness, or temperament, without constraint or external force.
- noun The tendency to undergo change, characteristic of both animal and vegetable organisms, and not restrained or checked by the environment.
- noun The tendency to activity of muscular tissue, including the voluntary muscles, when in a state of healthful vigor and refreshment.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable The quality of being
spontaneous . - noun countable
Spontaneous behaviour . - noun biology The tendency to
undergo change , characteristic of both animal and vegetable organisms, and not restrained or checked by theenvironment . - noun biology The tendency to activity of
muscular tissue , including the voluntary muscles, when in a state of healthful vigour and refreshment.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quality of being spontaneous and coming from natural feelings without constraint
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Examples
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It's time for more spunk and spontaneity from the president, not in place of explanation but accompanying it.
Kathleen Reardon: What the President Could Learn From Sarah Palin Kathleen Reardon 2010
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Their spontaneity is as fabricated as the Tea Bag parties.
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But it's time for more spunk and spontaneity from the president, not in place of explanation but accompanying it.
Kathleen Reardon: What the President Could Learn From Sarah Palin Kathleen Reardon 2010
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But it's time for more spunk and spontaneity from the president, not in place of explanation but accompanying it.
Kathleen Reardon: What the President Could Learn From Sarah Palin Kathleen Reardon 2010
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But it's time for more spunk and spontaneity from the president, not in place of explanation but accompanying it.
Kathleen Reardon: What the President Could Learn From Sarah Palin Kathleen Reardon 2010
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The Mirror's writer found Rowbotham too methodical, too studied, and too much lacking in spontaneity, however, even likening his talent to "the carved work of a bed post."
Cast and Characters 2008
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Emotional outbursts are trusted because (so the myth would have it) emotional outbursts are spontaneous, spontaneity is honest, and honesty is valued whether it offends or not.
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What spontaneity is — spontaneity comes from an invisible idea that is there before the creation began.
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The authors are careful to distance their carefully operationalized definitions of spontaneity from the philosophical issue of free will.
Bunny and a Book 2008
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The conclusion of spontaneity is not drawn from looking at the video or eyeballing the fly but by analysing the graphed traces.
Bunny and a Book 2008
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