spontaneous

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   happening or arising without apparent external cause

   spontaneous laughter

2. 2
   adj

   Self-generated; happening without any apparent external cause.

   He made a spontaneous offer of help.

3. 3
   adj

   Produced without being planted or without human cultivation or labor.

   He persisted in his design; and, because he would not make his wants known, actually subsisted for several days on hips, haws and sloes, and other spontaneous fruits which he gathered in the woods and fields.

4. 4
   adj

   Said or done without prior planning or prior writing.

   He made a spontaneous remarks in the court.

5. 5
   adj

   said or done without having been planned or written in advance

6. 6
   adj

   Done by one's own free choice, or without planning.

7. 7
   adj

   Proceeding from natural feeling or native tendency without external or conscious constraint.

8. 8
   adj

   Arising from a momentary impulse.

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Late Latin spontāneus.