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Unaffected vs Spontaneous - What's the difference?

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Unaffected is a related term of spontaneous.


As adjectives the difference between unaffected and spontaneous

is that unaffected is not affected or changed while spontaneous is self-generated; happening without any apparent external cause.

As a noun unaffected

is someone not , as by a disease.

unaffected

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Not affected or changed.
  • Since I work from home, I was unaffected by the office move.
  • Lacking pretense or affectation; natural.
  • * 1812 , , Pride and Prejudice , Chapter 3:
  • Mr. Bingley was good-looking and gentlemanlike; he had a pleasant countenance, and easy, unaffected manners.

    Derived terms

    * unaffectedly * unaffectedness

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone not , as by a disease.
  • Synonyms

    * nonaffected (less common)

    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