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🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

自発性

Native Script:日本語

Pronunciation / Transliteration: jihatsusei

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Spontaneity/ˌspɒn.təˈneɪ.ə.ti/
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"彼女の行動にはいつも素晴らしい自発性がある。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The condition of being spontaneous; the quality or state of occurring naturally, without constraint, forethought, or external incitement.

    "Their weekend trip was planned with absolute spontaneity, leaving everything to chance."
  2. 2

    A sudden or uninhibited impulse or tendency to act without premeditation.

    "She loved the youthful spontaneity that he brought into her otherwise rigid routine."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Late Latin word sponte meaning 'of one's own accord', which evolved into the French spontanéité before entering English in the 17th century. The root fundamentally captures the quality of being self-generated or happening without external constraint.

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