What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Spontaneous vs Autoionize - What's the difference?

spontaneous | autoionize |

As an adjective spontaneous

is self-generated; happening without any apparent external cause.

As a verb autoionize is

(physics|of an atom or molecule) to spontaneously transition from an electrically neutral state to a lower-energy ionized state.

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

    autoionize

    English

    Alternative forms

    *autoionise

    Verb

    (autoioniz)
  • (physics, of an atom or molecule) To spontaneously transition from an electrically neutral state to a lower-energy ionized state
  • Derived terms

    *autoionization *autoionizer