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/spˌɑntənˈiəti/ Listen

noun

Spontaneity n. (pl. spontaneities)

The quality or state of being spontaneous, or acting from native feeling, proneness, or temperament, without constraint or external force. "Romney Leigh, who lives by diagrams, And crosses not the spontaneities Of all his individual, personal life With formal universals."

(Biol.)

(a)

The tendency to undergo change, characteristic of both animal and vegetable organisms, and not restrained or checked by the environment.

(b)

The tendency to activity of muscular tissue, including the voluntary muscles, when in a state of healthful vigor and refreshment.

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Etymology of 'Spontaneity'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Spontaneity" Quotes from Famous Books

... natures—a Shakespeare, a Beethoven, a Goethe—can endure the stress of Court favour. Where the national nourishment from below is deficient, an elegant artificial semblance may indeed be forced; but it is felt to be wanting in root and to lack that spontaneity and universality which are the very life's breath of all true art and specially mark the ...

— Wagner's Tristan und Isolde • George Ainslie Hight

... her usual spontaneity. And she felt, if she did not explain, the wideness of her eyes. Her father did not look as if anything worried him. It was a way of his, however, not to show stress or worry. Lenore ate in silence until Rose left the dining-room, and then she asked her father if there ...

— The Desert of Wheat • Zane Grey

... highest pulling power as long as the correspondent handles them like strange tools. The principles must, of course, first be learned and consciously applied. But to give your letter the touch of sincerity and of spontaneity; to give it the grip that holds and the hook that pulls, these principles must become a part of yourself. They must appear in your letters, not because you have consciously put them in but because your thinking and your writing ...

— Business Correspondence • Anonymous

... notice this; the consequence is that if we were to have a forgery, we should have a very close reproduction of this style of expression, and it would show itself to be forgery, by being without the boldness, spontaneity and novelty of the original; it would be timid, forced, and elaborately close and cramped. Now just this copying of a fabricator is what we find in the Annals. Exactly corresponding, to Tacitus's "wounds" instead of "the wounded," is seeing blood streaming in families," meaning "suicides," ...

— Tacitus and Bracciolini - The Annals Forged in the XVth Century • John Wilson Ross

... sensation, thought, and the spontaneous power of the will, so peculiar to man and to the higher animals, are altogether so many outcomes of certain conditions of matter and nothing else, makes at best merely a subjective statement. He cannot help acknowledging that spontaneity is not a quality of matter. He is then driven to the contention that what we believe to be spontaneous in us, is, after all, an unconscious result of external impulses only. His contention rests then on the basis of his own inner experience, or what he believes to be such. This contention ...

— Five Years Of Theosophy • Various

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