An instinct is something you don't need to learn it happens naturally, without you even thinking about it. Babies cry by instinct, and ducks follow their mother by instinct.
Urged or smulated from within; naturally moved or impelled; imbued; animated; alive; quick;
Noun
inborn pattern of behavior often responsive to specific stimuli; "the spawning instinct in salmon"; "altruistic instincts in social animals"
a.
Urged or stimulated from within; naturally moved or
impelled; imbued; animated; alive; quick; as, birds instinct with life.
a.
Natural inward impulse; unconscious, involuntary, or
unreasoning prompting to any mode of action, whether bodily, or mental,
without a distinct apprehension of the end or object to be
accomplished.
a.
Specif., the natural, unreasoning, impulse by which an
animal is guided to the performance of any action, without of
improvement in the method.
a.
A natural aptitude or knack; a predilection; as, an
instinct for order; to be modest by instinct.
v. t.
To impress, as an animating power, or instinct.
Instinct
The chariot of paternal deity . . . Itself instinct with spirit, but convoyed By four cherubic shapes.
A noble performance, instinct with sound principle.
Instinct
An instinct is a propensity prior to experience, and independent of instructions.
An instinct is a blind tendency to some mode of action, independent of any consideration, on the part of the agent, of the end to which the action leads.
An instinct is an agent which performs blindly and ignorantly a work of intelligence and knowledge.
By a divine instinct, men's minds mistrust Ensuing dangers.2.
The resemblance between what originally was a habit, and an instinct becomes so close as not to be distinguished.3.
Instinct
Urged or smulated from within; naturally moved or impelled; imbued; animated; alive; quick;
Natural inward impulse; unconscious, involuntary, or unreasoning prompting to any mode of action, whether bodily, or mental, without a distinct apprehension of the end or object to be accomplished.
To impress, as an animating power, or instinct.
Usage Examples
Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
Art and works of art do not make an artist sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
I first became a vegetarian when I was nine, in response to an argument made by a radical babysitter. My great change - which lasted a couple of weeks - was based on the very simple instinct that it's wrong to kill animals for food.
An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.
Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But I'd rather they saw it more as a lesson about following their own instincts rather than imitating somebody.
Human beings want to be free and however long they may agree to stay locked up, to stay oppressed, there will come a time when they say 'That's it.' Suddenly they find themselves doing something that they never would have thought they would be doing, simply because of the human instinct that makes them turn their face towards freedom.
I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
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Other Usage ExamplesHe had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.
All the learning in the world cannot replace instinct.
All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
Don't you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.
I don't think you can question your instinct you should always trust it.
He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
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