different between spontaneous vs selfconscious
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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selfconscious
English
Adjective
selfconscious (comparative more selfconscious, superlative most selfconscious)
- Alternative spelling of self-conscious
selfconscious From the web:
- what self conscious
- what self conscious meaning
- what's self-conscious in german
- what's self-conscious in french
- what does self conscious mean
- what are you self conscious about
- what causes self-consciousness
- what is self consciousness in psychology
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