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Definition
behaving in an instinctive, uninhibited manneror:
happening naturally (without planning or external force)
- The group broke into spontaneous laughter.
spontaneous = happening or arising without plan
- He bubbled with enthusiasms, and his faintest smile or lightest laugh seemed spontaneous and genuine.London, Jack -- Adventure
- And Nicholas heard her spontaneous, happy, ringing laughter.Tolstoy, Leo -- War and Peace
- 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.R. Buckminster Fuller
- Everything about him was warm and spontaneous.Cather, Willa -- My Antonia
- This, beyond most works of Greek literature, is remarkable for its fresh and spontaneous love of wild natural scenes.Homer -- Collection Of Hesiod, Homer and Homerica
- When she finally reached my side, there were gasps of joy and everyone spontaneously began to clap.Nicholas Sparks -- A Walk to Remember
- Then, spontaneously, the Aphrodite campers cheered so loudly, they must've been heard all across camp.Rick Riordan -- The Lost Hero
- a deed of spontaneous beautyHenrik Ibsen -- Hedda Gabler
- He kisses her spontaneously.Peter Shaffer -- Equus
- Spontaneity and whim are the order of the day.Tom Stoppard -- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
- It's this course where each boy in class has to get up in class and make a speech. You know. spontaneous and all.J.D. Salinger -- The Catcher in the Rye
- "If you'd sat there any longer," Annabeth said, "you would've spontaneously combusted."Rick Riordan -- The Last Olympian
- She was quiet, her expression softening into the spontaneous compassion I'd once been so drawn to.Nicholas Sparks -- Dear John
- A spontaneous demonstration.Sherman Alexie -- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
- spontaneous worship of VaughanEdward E. Hale -- The Man Without a Country
- No, the bomber battle in 8 and my intervention in 2 were spontaneous, rash, and definitely unauthorized.Suzanne Collins -- Mockingjay
- for a while that there was a deep and spontaneous mutual attractionF. Scott Fitzgerald -- Winter Dreams
- Spontaneously several voices cried out.Jane Yolen -- The Devils Arithmetic
- Normal cells didn't spontaneously become cancerous, he said; they were simply taken over by HeLa.Rebecca Skloot -- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
spontaneous = instinctive, uninhibited, and unplanned
spontaneously = happening without plan
spontaneously = suddenly without planning
spontaneous = happening or arising without plan
spontaneously = instinctively and uninhibitedly (without plan)
spontaneity = happening or arising without plan
spontaneous = without planning
spontaneously = happening without apparent external cause
spontaneous = instinctive (coming naturally from within)
spontaneous = happening or arising without plan
spontaneous = happening or arising without plan
spontaneous = unplanned
spontaneous = arising without plan
spontaneously = happening without plan or forethought
spontaneously = without external cause
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