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instinctivity

instinctivity noun: the quality of being instinctive, or prompted by instinct.

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, […]...

Forms of instinctivity

pluralinstinctivities

Origin of instinctivity

From instinctive + -ity.

Questions about instinctivity

What does instinctivity mean?
Instinctivity means the quality of being instinctive, or prompted by instinct.
What part of speech is instinctivity?
Instinctivity is a noun.
What is the plural of instinctivity?
The plural of instinctivity is instinctivities.

Words near instinctivity in the dictionary

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

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