Unselfconscious vs Spontaneous - What's the difference?
unselfconscious | spontaneous |
Not self-conscious; natural and genuine
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Self-generated; happening without any apparent external cause.
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
Random.
Sudden, without warning.
As adjectives the difference between unselfconscious and spontaneous
is that unselfconscious is not self-conscious; natural and genuine while spontaneous is self-generated; happening without any apparent external cause.unselfconscious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Perfect ignorance and perfect knowledge are alike unselfconscious.
- After a minute's silence he spoke again in Tibetan, in a voice creaky with age but curiously vibrant with the unselfconscious habit of authority.
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Antonyms
*self-consciousspontaneous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He made a spontaneous offer of help.
- a spontaneous growth of wood