spontaneous
adjective
spon·ta·ne·ous
spän-ˈtā-nē-əs
1
: proceeding from natural feeling or native tendency without external constraint
2
: arising from a momentary impulse
3
: controlled and directed internally : self-acting
spontaneous movement characteristic of living things
4
: produced without being planted or without human labor : indigenous
5
: developing or occurring without apparent external influence, force, cause, or treatment
spontaneously
adverb
spontaneousness
noun
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