spontaneousness

1. 1.

   the quality of being spontaneous and coming from natural feelings without constraint

   “the spontaneity of his laughter”

   Synonymsspontaneity

   Broadernaturalness

Other forms of spontaneousness

plural

spontaneousnesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about spontaneousness

What does spontaneousness mean?

spontaneousness means "the quality of being spontaneous and coming from natural feelings without constraint".

How many syllables are in spontaneousness?

spontaneousness has 5 syllables: spon-ta-ne-ou-sness. The stress falls on "ne".

What is another word for spontaneousness?

Close synonyms include spontaneity. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is spontaneousness a common word?

spontaneousness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.