The difference between Adventitious and Spontaneous

When used as adjectives, adventitious means from an external source, whereas spontaneous means self-generated.


check bellow for the other definitions of Adventitious and Spontaneous

  1. Adventitious as an adjective:

    From an external source; not innate or inherent, foreign.

  2. Adventitious as an adjective:

    Accidental, additional, appearing casually.

  3. Adventitious as an adjective (genetics, medicine):

    Not congenital; acquired.

  4. Adventitious as an adjective (biology):

    Developing in an unusual place or from an unusual source.

  1. Spontaneous as an adjective:

    Self-generated; happening without any apparent external cause.

    Examples:

    "He made a spontaneous offer of help."

  2. Spontaneous as an adjective:

    Done by one's own free choice, or without planning.

  3. Spontaneous as an adjective:

    Proceeding from natural feeling or native tendency without external or conscious constraint

  4. Spontaneous as an adjective:

    Arising from a momentary impulse

  5. Spontaneous as an adjective:

    Controlled and directed internally; self-active; spontaneous movement characteristic of living things

  6. Spontaneous as an adjective:

    Produced without being planted or without human labor; indigenous

    Examples:

    "a spontaneous growth of wood"

  7. Spontaneous as an adjective:

    Random.

  8. Spontaneous as an adjective:

    Sudden, without warning.