Planned vs. Spontaneous — What's the Difference?

An orderly or step-by-step conception or proposal for accomplishing an objective

Happening or arising without apparent external cause; self-generated

A proposed or intended course of action

Arising from a natural inclination or impulse and not from forethought or prompting

A systematic arrangement of elements or important parts; a configuration or outline

Unconstrained and unstudied in manner or behavior

A drawing or diagram made to scale showing the structure or arrangement of something.

Growing without cultivation or human labor

In perspective rendering, one of several imaginary planes perpendicular to the line of vision between the viewer and the object being depicted.

Self-generated; happening without any apparent external cause.

A program or policy stipulating a service or benefit

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

To formulate a scheme or program for the accomplishment, enactment, or attainment of

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

To have as a specific aim or purpose; intend

Arising from a momentary impulse.

To draw or make a graphic representation of.

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

To make plans.

Produced without being planted or without human cultivation or labor.

Simple past tense and past participle of plan

Sudden, without warning.

Existing or designed according to a plan.

Proceeding from natural feeling, temperament, or disposition, or from a native internal proneness, readiness, or tendency, without constraint; as, a spontaneous gift or proposition.

At or through the planning stage, but not yet implemented or started.

Proceeding from, or acting by, internal impulse, energy, or natural law, without external force; as, spontaneous motion; spontaneous growth.

Designed or carried out according to a plan;

Produced without being planted, or without human labor; as, a spontaneous growth of wood.

Planned in advance;

Happening or arising without apparent external cause;

Said or done without having been planned or written in advance;

Produced without being planted or without human labor;