Synonyms:
spontaneous, self-generated
Meaning: happening or arising without apparent external cause; "spontaneous laughter"; "spontaneous combustion"; "a spontaneous abortion"
Usage examples
All was instinctive and spontaneous
"You see, I guessed that it was not spontaneous; that you had wrung it out of her."
No doctor has ever claimed a cure for a case of it, though spontaneous cures are recorded.
The only hope the doctors had held out to me was a spontaneous cure, and such a cure was mine.
But a glance at that young man meant volumes and there was no limit to his spontaneous resources.
Some men, Aristotle tells us, are slaves by nature; only physical functions are spontaneous in them.
It must be admitted that they are rather old-fashioned, but this is usually the case with natural spontaneous verse.
They did so, but that cheer lacked the spontaneous enthusiasm and genuine admiration which had been thrown into the cheering for Grant, something which Springer did not fail to note.
Communism--or association in a simple form--is the necessary object and original aspiration of the social nature, the spontaneous movement by which it manifests and establishes itself.
This progressive and painful education of our instinct, this slow and imperceptible transformation of our spontaneous perceptions into deliberate knowledge, does not take place among the animals, whose instincts remain fixed, and never become enlightened.