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Intentional vs Spontaneous - What's the difference?

intentional | spontaneous |

As adjectives the difference between intentional and spontaneous

is that intentional is intended or planned; done deliberately or voluntarily while spontaneous is self-generated; happening without any apparent external cause.

intentional

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Intended or planned; done deliberately or voluntarily.
  • (legal) Done with intent.
  • Antonyms

    * unintentional

    Derived terms

    * intentionally

    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