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spontaneous
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spontaneous
(of plants) growing naturally; indigenous
spontaneous [spän′tā·nē·əs]
(physics)
Occurring without application of an external agency, because of the inherent properties of an object.
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I think he was giving us an illusion of spontaneously generated, effortless effervescence of the mind, the way a jazz musician would call spontaneous, but it's a kind of spontaneousness that works really nicely after 20 years of hard work.
LIFE IN THE WORDS by The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)
Letter from America No 2627, June 18 1999 When you see on television some protest rally, I mean a spontaneous protest - people suddenly taking to the streets, brandishing fists, howling insults, waving posters - do you ever wonder who planned the spontaneousness of it all.
Rosa Parks: freedom in America by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
This noisy reception was not organized in advance, in fact, according to one report, the "impressive feature of her welcome home was its spontaneousness.
Streets, sounds and identity in interwar Harlem by Corbould, Clare / Journal of Social History
 
 
 
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