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instinctivities

instinctivities is the plural of instinctivity.

Meaning of instinctivity

Noun

instinctivity (usually uncountable, plural instinctivities)

  1. (usually) The quality of being instinctive, or prompted by instinct.
    • There is growth only in plants; but there is irritability, or, a better word, instinctivity, in insects.1830 September 23, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Logic”, in H[enry] N[elson] C[oleridge], editor, Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge. […], volume I, London: John Murray, […]...

Questions about instinctivities

What is instinctivities the plural of?
Instinctivities is the plural of instinctivity.

Words near instinctivities in the dictionary

  1. instinction
  2. instinctive
  3. instinctive drift
  4. instinctively
  5. instinctiveness
  6. instinctivities
  7. instinctivity
  8. instinctless
  9. instincts
  10. instinctual
  11. instinctualise

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