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Methodical vs Spontaneous - What's the difference?

methodical | spontaneous |

As adjectives the difference between methodical and spontaneous

is that methodical is in an organized manner; proceeding with regard to method; systematic while spontaneous is self-generated; happening without any apparent external cause.

methodical

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • In an organized manner; proceeding with regard to method; systematic.
  • Arranged with regard to method; disposed in a suitable manner, or in a manner to illustrate a subject, or to facilitate practical observation.
  • the methodical''' arrangement of arguments; a '''methodical treatise
  • * Addison
  • Methodical regularity.

    Synonyms

    * systematic

    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