Also spelled spontaniety
noun
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Meanings
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The quality of doing things naturally and on impulse, without planning.
Their trip lost all its spontaneity once every hour was scheduled.
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Synonyms
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· the quality of doing things...
spontaneousness
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suddenness
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Derived forms
aspontaneityunspontaneity
Related forms
spontaneous
Etymology
From Latin spontaneus (“voluntary”). By surface analysis, spont(aneous) + -aneity. Compare French spontanéité.