WordNet
adj. happening or arising without apparent external cause; "spontaneous laughter"; "spontaneous combustion"; "a spontaneous abortion" [syn: spontaneous] [ant: induced]
originating from the self [syn: self-produced]
Usage examples of "self-generated".
And it is only a living organism that has the capacity for self-generated, goal-directed action.
After that, it was just a matter of identifying their objects of hatredthat is, the people to be blamed for their youthful discontentand then deciding how to do away with their self-generated enemies, one at a time, or as a grand coup de main, which appealed to their sense of drama, if not their scant: understanding of reality.
Stonebender's little boy Jacob now subsumes not only an alien, two time travelers, the greatert genius of his age, several dozen barflies, a talking dog, and a self-generated Turing-class artificial intelligence .
In one we are told that they were on the threshold of an incredible turning point in self-generated evolution when they were destroyed in some catastrophe their own tamperings may inadvertently have brought about.