Word Meanings - SPONTANEOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Proceding from natural feeling, temperament, or disposition, or from a native internal proneness, readiness, or tendency, without constraint; as, a spontaneous gift or proportion. 2. Proceeding from, or acting by, internal impulse, energy, or

Additional info about word: SPONTANEOUS

1. Proceding from natural feeling, temperament, or disposition, or from a native internal proneness, readiness, or tendency, without constraint; as, a spontaneous gift or proportion. 2. Proceeding from, or acting by, internal impulse, energy, or natural law, without external force; as, spontaneous motion; spontaneous growth. 3. Produced without being planted, or without human labor; as, a spontaneous growth of wood. Spontaneous combustion, combustion produced in a substance by the evolution of heat through the chemical action of its own elements; as, the spontaneous combustion of waste matter saturated with oil. -- Spontaneous generation. See under Generation. Syn. -- Voluntary; uncompelled; willing. -- Spontaneous, Voluntary. What is voluntary is the result of a volition, or act of choice; it therefore implies some degree of consideration, and may be the result of mere reason without excited feeling. What is spontaneous springs wholly from feeling, or a sudden impulse which admits of no reflection; as, a spontaneous burst of applause. Hence, the term is also applied to things inanimate when they are produced without the determinate purpose or care of man. "Abstinence which is but voluntary fasting, and . . . exercise which is but voluntary labor." J. Seed. Spontaneous joys, where nature has its play, The soul adopts, and owns their firstborn away. Goldsmith. -- Spon*ta"ne*ous*ly, adv. -- Spon*ta"ne*ous*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SPONTANEOUS)

• Instinctive
• Natural
• voluntary
• spontaneous
• intuitive
• impulsive
• Mechanical
• Habitual
• automatic
• unreflective
• effortless
• unimpassioned
• Intrinsic
• eventual
• regular
• normal
• cosmical
• true
• probable
• consistent
• unless
• original

Related words: (words related to SPONTANEOUS)

• INTRINSICAL
  1. Intrinsic. 2. Intimate; closely familiar. Sir H. Wotton.
• SPONTANEOUS
  1. Proceding from natural feeling, temperament, or disposition, or from a native internal proneness, readiness, or tendency, without constraint; as, a spontaneous gift or proportion. 2. Proceeding from, or acting by, internal impulse, energy, or
• REGULARITY
  The condition or quality of being regular; as, regularity of outline; the regularity of motion.
• NATURALIST
  1. One versed in natural science; a student of natural history, esp. of the natural history of animals. 2. One who holds or maintains the doctrine of naturalism in religion. H. Bushnell.
• NATURAL STEEL
  Steel made by the direct refining of cast iron in a finery, or, as wootz, by a direct process from the ore.
• CONSISTENTLY
  In a consistent manner.
• REGULARIA
  A division of Echini which includes the circular, or regular, sea urchins.
• VOLUNTARY
  Of or pertaining to the will; subject to, or regulated by, the will; as, the voluntary motions of an animal, such as the movements of the leg or arm (in distinction from involuntary motions, such as the movements of the heart); the voluntary muscle
• IMPULSIVELY
  In an impulsive manner.
• NATURAL
  Belonging to, to be taken in, or referred to, some system, in which the base is 1; -- said or certain functions or numbers; as, natural numbers, those commencing at 1; natural sines, cosines, etc., those taken in arcs whose radii are 1. (more info)
• PROBABLE
  1. Capable of being proved. 2. Having more evidence for than against; supported by evidence which inclines the mind to believe, but leaves some room for doubt; likely. That is accounted probable which has better arguments producible for it than
• AUTOMATIC; AUTOMATICAL
  1. Having an inherent power of action or motion. Nothing can be said to be automatic. Sir H. Davy. 2. Pertaining to, or produced by, an automaton; of the nature of an automaton; self-acting or self-regulating under fixed conditions; -- esp. applied
• IMPULSIVENESS
  The quality of being impulsive.
• INTRINSIC
  A genuine quality. Warburton.
• NATURALNESS
  The state or quality of being natural; conformity to nature.
• INTRINSICALNESS
  The quality of being intrinsical; intrinsicality.
• EVENTUALLY
  In an eventual manner; finally; ultimately.
• MECHANICAL
  1. Pertaining to, governed by, or in accordance with, mechanics, or the laws of motion; pertaining to the quantitative relations of force and matter, as distinguished from mental, vital, chemical, etc.; as, mechanical principles; a mechanical
• INTRINSICALLY
  Internally; A lie is a thing absolutely and intrinsically evil. South.
• INTRINSICATE
  Intricate. Shak.
• SUPERNATURALNESS
  The quality or state of being supernatural.
• IRREGULARITY
  The state or quality of being irregular; that which is irregular.
• ABORIGINALLY
  Primarily.
• PRETERNATURALITY
  Preternaturalness. Dr. John Smith.
• UNVOLUNTARY
  Involuntary. Fuller.
• SUBNORMAL
  That part of the axis of a curved line which is intercepted between the ordinate and the normal.
• INCONSISTENTLY
  In an inconsistent manner.
• NATURALIZE
  1. To make natural; as, custom naturalizes labor or study. 2. To confer the rights and privileges of a native subject or citizen on; to make as if native; to adopt, as a foreigner into a nation or state, and place in the condition of
• SUPERNATURAL
  Being beyond, or exceeding, the power or laws of nature; miraculous. Syn. -- Preternatural. -- Supernatural, Preternatural. Preternatural signifies beside nature, and supernatural, above or beyond nature. What is very greatly aside from the ordinary
• ABNORMAL
  Not conformed to rule or system; deviating from the type; anomalous; irregular. "That deviating from the type; anomalous; irregular. " Froude.