αυθόρμητος — meaning in English
afthormitos
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English meaning
- arbitrary adj Based on personal choice or chance rather than any clear reason, rule, or system.
- spontaneous adj Happening or done without planning, on impulse.
Senses
αυθόρμητος is used for these senses in English:
- arbitrary Determined by impulse rather than reason; often connoting heavy-handedness.
- off-the-cuff (idiomatic) Extemporaneous; without prior preparation; spontaneous; impromptu.
- spontaneous Self-generated; happening without any apparent external cause.
- spontaneous Done by one's own free choice, or without planning.
- spontaneous Proceeding from natural feeling or native tendency without external or conscious constraint.
- spontaneous Arising from a momentary impulse.
- spontaneous Produced without being planted or without human cultivation or labor.
arbitrary — full definition
- adj Based on personal choice or chance rather than any clear reason, rule, or system.
- adj Used, in mathematics and logic, to mean "any one you like" out of all the possibilities — not random in the everyday sense, but unspecified.
spontaneous — full definition
- adj Happening or done without planning, on impulse.
- adj Occurring naturally, without external cause or human intervention.