spontaneity

[ spon-tuh-nee-i-tee, -ney- ]

/ ˌspɒn təˈni ɪ ti, -ˈneɪ- /

the state, quality, or fact of being spontaneous.

spontaneous activity.

spontaneities, spontaneous impulses, movements, or actions.

Origin of spontaneity

1645–55; < Late Latin spontāne(us) spontaneous + -ity

One gets the feeling that Mitchum misses not only the spontaneity but the fun his generation had.

The Stacks: Mr. Bad Taste and Trouble Himself: Robert Mitchum |Robert Ward |July 19, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
There was an endearingness to the spontaneity of it all, but also a palpable stress accompanying the frenzy.

The YouTube Music Awards Were Alarmingly Strange and Epically Cool |Kevin Fallon |November 4, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
Ibrahim vaulted to the forefront of a movement generated in large part by social media, which thrives on emotion and spontaneity.

A Human Rights Icon’s Ugly Side: Samira Ibrahim’s Hateful Tweets |Eleanor Clift |March 16, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
Spontaneity should, like a sort of fog, already envelop those pages that you will write the next day.

Ismail Kadare: How I Write |Noah Charney |January 31, 2013 |DAILY BEAST

Diana could not spend a day without calculating how she was going to get through it and never lived with any spontaneity.

Naomi Watts on ‘The Impossible,’ Personal Tragedy, and Playing Princess Diana |Marlow Stern |December 21, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
What is written while it is fresh has a vitality, a spontaneity which nothing can have that is recalled and set down later.

Talks on Writing English |Arlo Bates
Spontaneity is not apt to be discriminating, and the emotions are not safe guides to worldly distinction.

The Women of the French Salons |Amelia Gere Mason
It is this spontaneity of thought which gives birth to religion.

Christianity and Greek Philosophy |Benjamin Franklin Cocker
Spontaneity and reflection are the two modes in which the spirit manifests its activity.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 5, November, 1863 |Various
But in all this freedom and variety, spontaneity must not run into obtrusiveness, and variety must be saved from disorder.

The Expositor's Bible: The First Epistle to the Corinthians |Marcus Dods

spontaneity

/ (ˌspɒntəˈniːɪtɪ, -ˈneɪ-) /

the state or quality of being spontaneous

(often plural) the exhibiting of actions, impulses, or behaviour that are stimulated by internal processes