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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

  1. adj Based on personal choice or chance rather than any clear reason, rule, or system.
  2. 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

  1. adj Happening or done without planning, on impulse.
  2. adj Occurring naturally, without external cause or human intervention.

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