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Instinctive vs Spontaneity - What's the difference?

instinctive | spontaneity |

As an adjective instinctive

is related to or prompted by instinct.

As a noun spontaneity is

(uncountable) the quality of being spontaneous.

instinctive

English

Adjective

(wikipedia instinctive) (en adjective)
  • related to or prompted by instinct
  • driven by impulse, spontaneous and without thinking.

    • spontaneity

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The quality of being spontaneous.
  • * Elizabeth Browning
    • Romney Leigh, who lives by diagrams, / And crosses not the spontaneities / Of all his individual, personal life / With formal universals.
  • (countable) Spontaneous behaviour.
  • (biology) The tendency to undergo change, characteristic of both animal and vegetable organisms, and not restrained or checked by the environment.
  • (biology) The tendency to activity of muscular tissue, including the voluntary muscles, when in a state of healthful vigour and refreshment.

    • Antonyms

    * (quality of being spontaneous) discipline

    Related terms

    * spontaneous

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