unprompted

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ prompted.

Adjective

unprompted (comparative more unprompted, superlative most unprompted)

1. Not prompted; not urged or instigated; spontaneous.

   Synonym: unstimulated

   Hyponym: unprovoked

   • 2018 December, Nathan Betancourt, Balázs Kovács, Sarah M. G. Otner, “The perception of status: How we infer the status of others from their social relationships”, in Network Science, volume 6, number 3, →DOI:

     The unprompted, rapid, and reliable emergence of hierarchical relationships within human social groups (Gruenfeld & Tiedens, 2010; Leavitt, 2005) means that differences in social status exist in perhaps all human social environments (Anderson & Kilduff, 2009; Gould, 2002; Ridgeway, 1991).

Translations

not prompted

• Bulgarian: спонтанен (bg) (spontanen), неподсказан (nepodskazan)
• Finnish: oma-aloitteinen (fi)
• French: spontané (fr)
• Norwegian: uoppfordret