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Spontaneity vs Autonomy - What's the difference?

spontaneity | autonomy |

As nouns the difference between spontaneity and autonomy

is that spontaneity is (uncountable) the quality of being spontaneous while autonomy is self-government; freedom to act or function independently.

spontaneity

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) The quality of being spontaneous.
  • * Elizabeth Browning
  • Romney Leigh, who lives by diagrams, / And crosses not the spontaneities / Of all his individual, personal life / With formal universals.
  • (countable) Spontaneous behaviour.
  • (biology) The tendency to undergo change, characteristic of both animal and vegetable organisms, and not restrained or checked by the environment.
  • (biology) The tendency to activity of muscular tissue, including the voluntary muscles, when in a state of healthful vigour and refreshment.
  • Antonyms

    * (quality of being spontaneous) discipline

    autonomy

    English

    Noun

  • Self-government; freedom to act or function independently.
  • (label) The capacity to make an informed, uncoerced decision.
  • (label) The capacity of a system to make a decision about its actions without the involvement of another system or operator.
  • (label) The status of a church whose highest-ranking bishop is appointed by the patriarch of the mother church, but which is self-governing in all other respects. Compare autocephaly.
  • Synonyms

    * (self-government) nationhood, nationality, sovereignty, independence

    Antonyms

    * (self-government) dependency, nonautonomy, inoperability * (capacity to make independent decisions) heteronomy, incapacity

    Derived terms

    * autonomic * autonomous, autonomously