different between spontaneity vs unpremeditation

English

Etymology

Compare French spontanéité.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?sp?n.t?.ne?.?.ti/

Noun

spontaneity (countable and uncountable, plural spontaneities)

1. (uncountable) The quality of being spontaneous.
2. (countable) Spontaneous behaviour.

   • Romney Leigh, who lives by diagrams, / And crosses out the spontaneities / Of all his individual, personal life / With formal universals.

3. (biology) The tendency to undergo change, characteristic of both animal and vegetable organisms, and not restrained or checked by the environment.
4. (biology) The tendency to activity of muscular tissue, including the voluntary muscles, when in a state of healthful vigour and refreshment.

Synonyms

• (quality of being spontaneous): abruptness, spontaneousness; see also Thesaurus:suddenness

Antonyms

• (quality of being spontaneous): discipline

Related terms

• spontaneous

Translations

Further reading

• spontaneity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• spontaneity in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• spontaneity at OneLook Dictionary Search

English

Etymology

un- +? premeditation

Noun

unpremeditation (uncountable)

1. Lack of premeditation; spontaneity.
   • 1912, Dorothy Canfield, The Squirrel-Cage, New York: Henry Holt & Co., Chapter 29, p. 327,^[2]

     With a gesture as automatic as drawing breath, he jerked out his watch and looked at it, apparently to make sure of catching his trolley, although his valedictory was poured out with such a passionate unpremeditation that the action must have been involuntary and unconscious.

   • 1958, Muriel Spark, Robinson, London: Macmillan, Chapter 3,

     […] on the plane, I had taken to Jimmie also because of his seeming unpremeditation in talking to me in the first place.