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Improvisation vs Spontaneous - What's the difference?

improvisation | spontaneous |

As a noun improvisation

is improvisation.

As an adjective spontaneous is

self-generated; happening without any apparent external cause.

improvisation

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act or art of composing and rendering music, poetry, and the like, extemporaneously; as, improvisation on the organ.
  • That which is improvised; an impromptu.
  • Musical technique, characteristic of blues music.
  • The act of improvising, acting or going about something without planning ahead
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    spontaneous

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Self-generated; happening without any apparent external cause.
  • He made a spontaneous offer of help.
  • 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
  • a spontaneous growth of wood
  • Random.
  • Sudden, without warning.
  • Synonyms

    * (self-generated) autonomous * (sense, done by one's own free choice) autonomous * autonomous

    Derived terms

    * spontaneousity