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.

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  • noun The quality of being instinctive, or prompted by instinct.

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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