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Spontaneous vs Unpretentious - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between spontaneous and unpretentious

is that spontaneous is self-generated; happening without any apparent external cause while unpretentious is simple, humble, not pretentious, plain.

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

    unpretentious

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Simple, humble, not pretentious, plain.

    • Synonyms

    * See

    Antonyms

    * pretentious

    Derived terms

    * unpretentiously * unpretentiousness