The difference between Autonomous and Spontaneous
When used as adjectives, autonomous means self-governing. intelligent, sentient, self-aware, thinking, feeling, governing independently, whereas spontaneous means self-generated.
check bellow for the other definitions of Autonomous and Spontaneous
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Autonomous as an adjective:
Self-governing. Intelligent, sentient, self-aware, thinking, feeling, governing independently.
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Autonomous as an adjective:
Acting on one's own or independently; of a child, acting without being governed by parental or guardian rules.
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Autonomous as an adjective (Celtic linguistics, of a verb form):
Used with no subject, indicating an unknown or unspecified agent; used in similar situations as the passive in English (the difference being that the theme in the English passive construction is the subject, while in the Celtic autonomous construction the theme is the object and there is no subject).
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Spontaneous as an adjective:
Self-generated; happening without any apparent external cause.
Examples:
"He made a spontaneous offer of help."
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Spontaneous as an adjective:
Done by one's own free choice, or without planning.
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Spontaneous as an adjective:
Proceeding from natural feeling or native tendency without external or conscious constraint
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Spontaneous as an adjective:
Arising from a momentary impulse
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Spontaneous as an adjective:
Controlled and directed internally; self-active; spontaneous movement characteristic of living things
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Spontaneous as an adjective:
Produced without being planted or without human labor; indigenous
Examples:
"a spontaneous growth of wood"
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Spontaneous as an adjective:
Random.
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Spontaneous as an adjective:
Sudden, without warning.