Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character of being instinctive or prompted by instinct.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The quality of being instinctive, or prompted by instinct.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The quality of being
instinctive , or prompted byinstinct .
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Examples
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Although I dissent with his aimless method of wandering around franticly trying to amuse himself, there's a great deal of humanity in the book and it's helping me to sympathize with persons caught up in a maelstrom of spontaneity, instinctivity, and naturalism.
Solitude despite union Fred 2007
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Although I dissent with his aimless method of wandering around franticly trying to amuse himself, there's a great deal of humanity in the book and it's helping me to sympathize with persons caught up in a maelstrom of spontaneity, instinctivity, and naturalism.
Archive 2007-04-01 Fred 2007
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There is growth only in plants; but there is irritability, or, a better word, instinctivity, in insects.
Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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