spontaneous
adjective
coming or resulting from a natural impulse or tendency; without effort or premeditation; natural and unconstrained; unplanned.
spontaneousness
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a word derived from
spontaneous.
Example Sentences
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The subject was Impulse, chosen by Margaret because she observed among her new friends "a great tendency to advocate spontaneousness at the expense of reflection."
From Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli) by Julia Ward Howe
Systematism is the death of spontaneousness, and spontaneousness is the very soul of art.
From Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered by Josef Hofmann
She is not affected, for nobody talks to you with more earnestness, or more of natural impulse and spontaneousness; but still, she is always listening to herself.
From Ellen Middleton—A Tale by Georgiana Fullerton
In the following sentence she betrays, by the law of opposites, the deepest charm of such a nature as her own; namely, a thoroughly sincere and fluent spontaneousness of character.
From The Friendships of Women by William Rounseville Alger
Hence there is not only spontaneousness, but boldness, liberty of spirit, the absence of all fear of being misunderstood, misconstrued.
From Rome by Hope Malleson
