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Spontaneity vs Improvisation - What's the difference?

spontaneity | improvisation |

As nouns the difference between spontaneity and improvisation

is that spontaneity is (uncountable) the quality of being spontaneous while improvisation is improvisation.

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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    improvisation

    English

    (wikipedia 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
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=September 15 , author=Amy Lawrence , title=Arsenal's Gervinho enjoys the joy of six against lowly Southampton , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=The Ivorian is a player with such a liking for improvisation it does not usually look like he has any more idea than anyone else what he is going to do next, so it was an interesting choice.}}