Толковый словарь английского языка - spontaneous
Spontaneous
spontaneous
adjective Etymology: Late Latin spontaneus, from Latin sponte of one's free will, voluntarily Date: 1653 proceeding from natural feeling or native tendency without external constraint, arising from a momentary impulse, controlled and directed internally ; self-acting , produced without being planted or without human labor ; indigenous , developing or occurring without apparent external influence, force, cause, or treatment, not apparently contrived or manipulated ; natural , ~ly adverb ~ness noun Synonyms: see: ~
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adj. 1 acting or done or occurring without external cause. 2 voluntary, without external incitement (made a spontaneous offer of his services). 3 Biol. (of structural changes in plants and muscular activity esp. in young animals) instinctive, automatic, prompted by no motive. 4 (of bodily movement, literary style, etc.) gracefully natural and unconstrained. 5 (of sudden movement etc.) involuntary, not due to conscious volition. 6 growing naturally without cultivation. Phrases and idioms spontaneous combustion the ignition of a mineral or vegetable substance (e.g. a heap of rags soaked with oil, a mass of wet coal) from heat engendered within itself, usu. by rapid oxidation. spontaneous generation the supposed production of living from non-living matter as inferred from the appearance of life (due in fact to bacteria etc.) in some infusions; abiogenesis. spontaneous suggestion suggestion from association of ideas without conscious volition. Derivatives spontaneity n. spontaneously adv. spontaneousness n. Etymology: LL spontaneus f. sponte of one's own accord ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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