Spontaneity vs Voluntarism - What's the difference?
spontaneity | voluntarism |
(uncountable) The quality of being spontaneous.
* Elizabeth Browning
(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.
(US) A reliance on volunteers to support an institution or achieve an end; volunteerism.
(philosophy) A doctrine that assigns the most dominant position to the will rather than the intellect.
(politics) The political theory that a community is best organized by the voluntary cooperation of individuals, rather than by a government, which is regarded as being coercive by nature.
As nouns the difference between spontaneity and voluntarism
is that spontaneity is (uncountable) the quality of being spontaneous while voluntarism is (us) a reliance on volunteers to support an institution or achieve an end; volunteerism.spontaneity
English
Noun
- Romney Leigh, who lives by diagrams, / And crosses not the spontaneities / Of all his individual, personal life / With formal universals.
