Spontaneous
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from Late Latin spontaneus, from Latin sponte (sua) (“of one's free will, voluntarily”).
Pronunciation Rhymes: -eɪniəs
Adjective
Self generated; happening without any apparent external cause.
He made a spontaneous offer of help.
Done by one's own free choice, or without planning.
proceeding from natural feeling or native tendency without external 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 labor : indigenous
not apparently contrived or manipulated : natural
Sudden, without warning.