Dependable vs Spontaneous - What's the difference?
dependable | spontaneous |
A reliable person or thing.
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Self-generated; happening without any apparent external cause.
Done by one's own free choice, or without planning.
proceeding from natural feeling or native tendency without external or conscious constraint
arising from a momentary impulse
controlled and directed internally; self-active; spontaneous movement characteristic of living things
produced without being planted or without human labor]]; [[endemic, indigenous
Random.
Sudden, without warning.
As adjectives the difference between dependable and spontaneous
is that dependable is able, or easily able to be depended on while spontaneous is self-generated; happening without any apparent external cause.As a noun dependable
is a reliable person or thing.dependable
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spontaneous
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Adjective
(en adjective)- He made a spontaneous offer of help.
- a spontaneous growth of wood