different between spontaneous vs reflexive
spontaneous
English
Etymology
Late Latin spont?neus, from Latin sponte (su?) (“of one's free will, voluntarily”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /sp?n?te?.ni.?s/
- (US) IPA(key): /sp?n?te?.ni.?s/
- Rhymes: -e?ni?s
Adjective
spontaneous (comparative more spontaneous, superlative most spontaneous)
- Self-generated; happening without any apparent external cause.
- He made a spontaneous offer of help.
- Done by one's own free choice, or without planning.
- Proceeding from natural feeling or native tendency without external or conscious constraint
- Arising from a momentary impulse
- Controlled and directed internally; self-active; spontaneous movement characteristic of living things
- Produced without being planted or without human cultivation or labor.
- 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol. IV, ch. 106:
- [H]e 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.
- 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol. IV, ch. 106:
- Random.
- Sudden, without warning.
Synonyms
- (self-generated): autonomous
- (done by one's own free choice): autonomous
- (proceeding from natural feeling...): autonomous
- (sudden, without warning): abrupt, precipitous, subitaneous; see also Thesaurus:sudden
Derived terms
- spontaneity
- spontaneously
Related terms
- spontaneous combustion
Translations
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reflexive
English
Etymology
From Medieval Latin reflex?vus, from Latin reflexus.
Pronunciation
- enPR: r?fl?k's?v, IPA(key): /???fl?ks?v/
Adjective
reflexive (not comparable)
- (grammar) Referring back to the subject, or having an object equal to the subject.
- (set theory) Of a relation R on a set S, such that xRx for all members x of S (that is, the relation holds between any element of the set and itself).
- Of or resulting from a reflex.
- (figuratively) Producing immediate response, spontaneous.
- Synonym of reflective
Antonyms
- irreflexive, non-reflexive, nonreflexive
Derived terms
- reflexive verb
- reflexive pronoun
- reflexivity
Related terms
- (set theory): symmetric
- (set theory): transitive
- irreflexive
Translations
Noun
reflexive (plural reflexives)
- (grammar) A reflexive pronoun.
- (grammar) A reflexive verb.
Translations
See also
- (verb): active, passive, neuter, transitive, intransitive
Further reading
- reflexive on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Reflexive pronoun on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Reflexive verb on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
German
Pronunciation
Adjective
reflexive
- inflection of reflexiv:
- strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
- strong nominative/accusative plural
- weak nominative all-gender singular
- weak accusative feminine/neuter singular
Latin
Etymology 1
Adverb
reflex?v? (not comparable)
- reflexively
Etymology 2
Adjective
reflex?ve
- vocative masculine singular of reflex?vus
reflexive From the web:
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