spontaneity

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: spon=ta=ne=i=ty

CIDE DICTIONARY

spontaneity, n. [Cf. F. spontanéité.].

•  The quality or state of being spontaneous, or acting from native feeling, proneness, or temperament, without constraint or external force.  [1913 Webster]

  "Romney Leigh, who lives by diagrams,
  And crosses not the spontaneities
  Of all his individual, personal life
  With formal universals."  [1913 Webster]
•  The tendency to undergo change, characteristic of both animal and vegetable organisms, and not restrained or checked by the environment.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

spontaneity

abandon, autonomousness, autonomy, ease, extemporaneousness, free will, gratuitousness, indeliberation, independence, involuntariness, naturalness, offhandedness, self-action, self-activity, self-determination, snap decision, snap judgment, snapshot, spontaneousness, uncalculatedness, undeliberateness, unforcedness, unpremeditation, unrestraint, voluntariness, voluntarism, voluntaryism, volunteer, volunteering

ROGET THESAURUS

spontaneity

Will

N will, volition, conation, velleity, liberum arbitrium, will and pleasure, free will, freedom, discretion, option, voluntariness, spontaneity, spontaneousness, originality, pleasure, wish, mind, desire, frame of mind, intention, predetermination, selfcontrol, determination, force of will, voluntary, volitional, willful, free, optional, discretional, discretionary, volitient, volitive, minded, prepense, intended, autocratic, unbidden &c (bid), spontaneous, original, unconstrained, voluntarily, at will, at pleasure, a volonte, a discretion, al piacere, ad libitum, ad arbitrium, as one thinks proper, as it seems good to, a beneplacito, of one's won accord, of one's own free will, proprio motu, suo motu, ex meromotu, out of one's won head, by choice, purposely, deliberately, stet pro ratione voluntas, sic volo sic jubeo, a vostro beneplacito, beneficium accipere libertatem est vendere, Deus vult, was man nicht kann meiden muss man willig leiden.