What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Predicable vs Spontaneous - What's the difference?

predicable | spontaneous |

As adjectives the difference between predicable and spontaneous

is that predicable is capable of being predicated or affirmed of something; affirmable; attributable while spontaneous is self-generated; happening without any apparent external cause.

As a noun predicable

is anything affirmable of another; especially, a general attribute or notion as affirmable of, or applicable to, many individuals.

predicable

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Capable of being predicated or affirmed of something; affirmable; attributable.
  • (grammar, of an adjective) That may be used in the predicate of a sentence, especially following a form of the verb "to be".
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Anything affirmable of another; especially, a general attribute or notion as affirmable of, or applicable to, many individuals.
  • (logic) One of the five most general relations of attributes involved in logical arrangements, namely, genus, species, difference, property, and accident.
  • 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