Emily Dickinson Lexicon — SPON-TA'NE-OUS-NESS

Definition for SPON-TA'NE-OUS-NESS

SPON-TA'NE-OUS-LY SPON-TOON'

SPON-TA'NE-OUS-NESS, n.

Voluntariness; freedom of will; accord unconstrained; applied to animals.
Freedom of acting without a foreign cause; applied to things.

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