SPONTANEOUSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spontaneously mean? 

• SPONTANEOUSLY (adverb)
  The adverb SPONTANEOUSLY has 2 senses:

1. in a spontaneous manner

2. without advance preparation

  Familiarity information: SPONTANEOUSLY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPONTANEOUSLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a spontaneous manner

Context example:

this shift occurs spontaneously

Pertainym:

spontaneous (happening or arising without apparent external cause)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Without advance preparation

Synonyms:

ad lib; ad libitum; impromptu; spontaneously

Context example:

he spoke ad lib

 Context examples 

You might travel spontaneously, hear exciting news about your career (again), or may, alternatively, hear news from your family that touches your heart.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The condition often spontaneously corrects or responds to the application of estrogen cream.

(Labial Fusion, NCI Thesaurus)

When the researchers compared the activity of the astrocytes across the four groups, they identified it in 5.7 percent of the synapses in the well-rested mouse brains, and 7.3 of the spontaneously awake mouse brains.

(Lack of Sleep Makes Brain to Literally Eat Itself, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A missense mutation abnormality may be heritable or occur spontaneously.

(Missense Mutation Abnormality, NCI Thesaurus)

These molecules spontaneously formed nanoparticles, which were then taken up by tumor cells.

(Injectable nanoparticles deliver cancer therapy in mice, NIH)

Multiple mutation abnormalities may be heritable or occur spontaneously.

(Multiple Nucleotide Abnormalities, NCI Thesaurus)

The tumor nodules may regress spontaneously.

(Disseminated Peritoneal Leiomyomatosis, NCI Thesaurus)

It usually affects elderly people and tends to subside spontaneously.

(Bullous Pemphigoid, NCI Thesaurus)

This may occur spontaneously in vivo or be experimentally induced in vivo or in vitro.

(Deletion Mutagenesis, NCI Thesaurus)

A technique to form a single hybrid cell, by fusion of two or more dissimilar cells, either spontaneously or by induced fusion.

(Cell Fusion, NCI Thesaurus)