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Webster 1913 Edition


Instinctivity

Inˊstinc-tiv′i-ty

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Noun.
The quality of being instinctive, or prompted by instinct.
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Coleridge.

Definition 2024


instinctivity

instinctivity

English

Noun

instinctivity (usually uncountable, plural instinctivities)

  1. The quality of being instinctive, or prompted by instinct.
    • Samuel Taylor Coleridge
      There is growth only in plants; but there is irritability, or, a better word, instinctivity, in insects.