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Instinct   /ˈɪnstɪŋkt/   Listen
Instinct

noun
1.
Inborn pattern of behavior often responsive to specific stimuli.  Synonym: inherent aptitude.  "Altruistic instincts in social animals"
adjective
1.
(followed by 'with')deeply filled or permeated.  Synonym: replete.  "Words instinct with love" , "It is replete with misery"



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"Instinct" Quotes from Famous Books



... that she was only anxious, and perhaps a little disappointed, at my not seeming brighter. For, after all, everything she had done and was doing was for my sake, and I should have trusted her and known this by instinct, instead of allowing myself from the very first beginning of our coming to London to think I was a sort ...
— My New Home • Mary Louisa Molesworth

... the final and irretrievable calamity: we fear to make ourselves conspicuous, we conform to standard, we bear ourselves meekly in that station whereunto it hath pleased Heaven to call us; the herd instinct survives four-footedness. For, we note the strange but not the familiar; our thinking is to right reason what peat is to coal; the outcry of the living and the dead perverts judgment, closes the ear to proof; and our wisest fear the scorn of ...
— Copper Streak Trail • Eugene Manlove Rhodes

... This brings us to one more question. May we, then, pray for those who have passed on before us? Let us plainly say that there is every reason for and none against the practice. We have in favour of it the sanction of Bible witness, of primitive Church custom, of Christian and human instinct. ...
— The Life of the Waiting Soul - in the Intermediate State • R. E. Sanderson

... without any instructions except to determine what was wrong and correct it. With soldierly instinct, he recognized that the indiscipline of the camp was an effect and not a cause. But even as he gave orders for relieving the physical distress of the men, he demanded that they return ...
— The Armed Forces Officer - Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2 • U. S. Department of Defense

... The untrained, unguided instinct of the actress in Laura had fostered in her a curious penchant toward melodrama. She had a taste for the magnificent. She revelled in these great musical "effects" upon her organ, the grandiose easily appealed to her, ...
— The Pit • Frank Norris


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