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spontaneous
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  • The group broke into spontaneous laughter.
    spontaneous = sudden and unplanned
  • Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences - "which is the mostest? which is the leastest?" They smell, taste, bite, and touch-test for hardness, softness, springiness, roughness, smoothness, coldness, warmness: the heft, shake, punch, squeeze, push, crush, rub, and try to pull things apart.†  (source)
  • Then she turned and left the stage, left him there alone, standing and facing the crowd, which began spontaneously the collective murmur of his name.  (source)
    spontaneously = happening or arising without plan
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  • It is too well executed to be spontaneous, because it happens in complete unison.  (source)
    spontaneous = happening or arising without plan
  • She had this horrible sense that she really was going to spontaneously morph back into her seventh-grade self.  (source)
    spontaneously = suddenly without apparent cause
  • Spontaneity and whim are the order of the day.  (source)
    Spontaneity = happening or arising without plan
  • He was a face on a pole, a man not yet out of his thirties who carried something stale and unspontaneous, an inward tension that kept him apart.†  (source)
    unspontaneous = behavior or action that does not happen naturally
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unspontaneous means not and reverses the meaning of spontaneous. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • "Spontaneous combustion is a form of harm, Mr. D," Chiron put in.  (source)
    Spontaneous = happening without apparent external cause
  • Spontaneously several voices cried out.  (source)
    Spontaneously = happening without plan or forethought
  • The fifth time they met, under the spell of Rosa's youthful spontaneity—halfway through a heated discussion...—Litvinoff surprised himself by proposing they go hear a concert together.  (source)
    spontaneity = behaving in an instinctive, uninhibited manner
  • Then Pallas struck The suitors with delirium; wide they stretch'd Their jaws with unspontaneous laughter loud; Their meat dripp'd blood; tears fill'd their eyes, and dire Presages of approaching woe, their hearts.†  (source)
    unspontaneous = behavior or action that does not happen naturally
  • Fiery, spontaneous, passionate—as he imagined most artists to be.  (source)
    spontaneous = behaving in an instinctive, uninhibited manner
  • Blink is concerned with ... those instantaneous impressions and conclusions that spontaneously arise whenever we meet a new person or confront a complex situation or have to make a decision under conditions of stress.  (source)
    spontaneously = naturally (without plan)
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