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Spontaneous vs Coincidence - What's the difference?

spontaneous | coincidence |

As an adjective spontaneous

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

As a noun coincidence is

of objects, the property of being coincident; occurring at the same time or place.

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

    coincidence

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Of objects, the property of being coincident; occurring at the same time or place.
  • Of events, the appearance of a meaningful connection when there is none.
  • (analysis) A coincidence point.
  • A fixed point of a correspondence; a point of a variety corresponding to itself under a correspondence.
  • Synonyms

    * (in analysis) coincidence point

    Derived terms

    * coincidence point * coincidence theory * index of coincidence * Lefschetz coincidence theorem