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Spontaneousness

noun
1.
The quality of being spontaneous and coming from natural feelings without constraint.  Synonym: spontaneity.






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"Spontaneousness" Quotes from Famous Books



... them upon another, making the relation of the two mechanical or accidental? It is only in thought, or in obedience to some creed or philosophy, that we do it. In life, in action, we unconsciously recognize ourselves as a part of Nature. Our success and well-being depend upon the closeness and spontaneousness of the relation. ...
— The Breath of Life • John Burroughs

... generous impulse, or to crowd out a genuine feeling: despair or discouragement is the only fruit of dry reasoning, unenlightened by the heart." In the following sentence she betrays, by the law of opposites, the deepest charm of such a nature as her own; namely, a thoroughly sincere and fluent spontaneousness of character. "I have just found out the thing that I most utterly hate: it is pedantry. To see such a big nothing in full march is to me the most revolting and the most unendurable ...
— The Friendships of Women • William Rounseville Alger



Words linked to "Spontaneousness" :   spontaneous, naturalness, spontaneity



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