instinctivity
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]instinctive + -ity
Noun
[edit]instinctivity (usually uncountable, plural instinctivities)
- The quality of being instinctive, or prompted by instinct.
- May 2, 1830, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk
- There is growth only in plants; but there is irritability, or, a better word, instinctivity, in insects.
- May 2, 1830, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk