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Premeditated vs Spontaneous - What's the difference?

premeditated | spontaneous |

As adjectives the difference between premeditated and spontaneous

is that premeditated is planned, considered or estimated in advance; deliberate while spontaneous is self-generated; happening without any apparent external cause.

As a verb premeditated

is past tense of premeditate.

premeditated

English

Verb

(head)
  • (premeditate)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Planned, considered or estimated in advance; deliberate.
    • premeditated assault
    a premeditated act of aggression
    a premeditated breach of contract
    in the face of premeditated criminal acts
    caused by grossly negligent or premeditated infringement of duty
    There is no proof of premeditated or grossly negligent wrongdoing.

    Antonyms

    * unpremeditated

    Related terms

    * premeditating * premeditation

    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

    Related terms

    * spontaneous combustion