Definition of Spontaneity

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Spontaneity

The quality or state of being spontaneous, or acting from native feeling, proneness, or temperament, without constraint or external force.

The tendency to undergo change, characteristic of both animal and vegetable organisms, and not restrained or cheked by the environment.

The tendency to activity of muscular tissue, including the voluntary muscles, when in a state of healthful vigor and refreshment.

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Spontaneity Quotations

The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.
Germaine Greer

There's a sense of spontaneity, and no emphasis on jokes in this show. People generally talk the way they talk in life if you were in this particular situation.
Larry David

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.
Rollo May

Once people see this 'Unplugged,' I just want them to feel the spontaneity, to feel passionate... I want you to see another side of me, that's free, and feel where my head is, where whatever happens, happens. I want you to feel inspired.
Alicia Keys

But I really like hosting, I think it's a strength of mine. It allows me to improvise, and I love the spontaneity of that, and I think I'm funny behind the desk when interviewing someone.
Garry Shandling

Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.
Jean Cocteau

Often, even after years, mental states once present in consciousness return to it with apparent spontaneity and without any act of the will; that is, they are reproduced involuntarily.
Hermann Ebbinghaus

Spontaneity has its time and its place.
Arthur Frank Burns

I like Vegas for its spontaneity.
Tony Curtis

Spontaneity Translations

spontaneity in German is Ungezwungenheit
spontaneity in Spanish is espontaneidad

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