Definition for Instinct:

• Specif., the natural, unreasoning, impulse by which an animal is guided to the performance of any action, without of improvement in the method.

Synonyms for Instinct:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • instinct,
  • replete.

• n.

  •
  • mastery,
  • proficiency,
  • experience,
  • prowess,
  • skill,
  • competence.
  •
  • bent,
  • genius,
  • approach,
  • knack,
  • ability,
  • talent,
  • turn,
  • conduct.
  •drive at (noun)
  • drive.
  •faculty (noun)
  • what takes,
  • what take,
  • what it take,
  • knowing way arounds.
  •full (noun)
  • full.
  •gift (noun)
  • numen.
  •gut feeling, idea (noun)
  • proclivity,
  • sense,
  • gut reaction,
  • nose,
  • predisposition,
  • savvy,
  • sentiment,
  • know-how,
  • urge,
  • tendency,
  • funny feeling.
  •habit (noun)
  • mannerism,
  • disposition,
  • leaning,
  • treadmill,
  • rut,
  • temperament,
  • conventionality,
  • custom,
  • tradition,
  • acclimation,
  • routine,
  • habit,
  • Familiarity,
  • trait,
  • addiction,
  • way of life,
  • daily grind,
  • fixed ways,
  • wont,
  • second nature,
  • regularity.
  •hunch (noun)
  • fore-bodings,
  • fore-warning,
  • feeling in one bone,
  • pre sage,
  • fore wisdom,
  • fore-warnings,
  • pre notations,
  • fore-casts,
  • pre apprehension,
  • fore knowledge,
  • preapprehensions,
  • fore casts,
  • fore wisdoms,
  • ominations,
  • bodings,
  • pre-notation,
  • pre sages,
  • pre-sages,
  • pre-notices,
  • pre sciences,
  • fore-boding,
  • pre monition,
  • pre apprehensions,
  • feeling one's bone,
  • feeling in bone,
  • fore knowledges,
  • augurations,
  • feeling one bone,
  • fore-wisdoms,
  • pre-sciences,
  • pre cognitions,
  • pre-cognition,
  • feeling in one's bone,
  • fore boding,
  • pre-apprehensions,
  • pre-monition,
  • fore-knowledge,
  • pre-science,
  • forewisdoms,
  • pre cognition,
  • fore-wisdom,
  • pre notice,
  • presagements,
  • fore-cast,
  • pre science,
  • pre-cognitions,
  • feeling bone,
  • pre-apprehension,
  • fore cast,
  • pre-notice,
  • mis giving,
  • pre-notations,
  • prenotations,
  • fore-knowledges,
  • feeling in ones bone,
  • pre notices,
  • pre-sage,
  • pre monitions,
  • fore warnings,
  • feeling ones bone,
  • mis-giving,
  • fore bodings,
  • pre notation.
  •imbued (noun)
  • imbued.
  •sixth sense (noun)
  • vibe,
  • keen intuition,
  • vibes,
  • gut feeling,
  • in sight.

• v.

  •sense (verb)
  • automatic response,
  • feel,
  • natural tendency.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • flexibility,
  • Attitudinal,
  • constrained,
  • behaviour,
  • human nature,
  • intuitiveness,
  • demeanor,
  • outlook,
  • manner.
  •
  • exhibition,
  • posture,
  • carapace,
  • behavior,
  • sixth sense,
  • schtick,
  • disposed,
  • mode,
  • flair.
  •
  • style,
  • obvious,
  • inclination,
  • exterior.
  •
  • deal.
  •
  • excess.
  •
  • display.
  •
  • spirit.
  •
  • way.
  •
  • head.

Paraphrases for Instinct:

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    insight, feeling, impulse.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    runs.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    intuition, gut, reflex, hunch, reaction.

Antonyms for Instinct:

• adj.

  • Other antonyms:
    matter, empty, brawn, body.

• n.

  • gut feeling, idea
    incapacity, knowledge, inability, lack, reason, disinclination.

Instinct Sentence Examples:

• There are times when to be alone is the instinct of nature, and this was one of them.

• She might have lived a thousand years since she had parted from him a few hours back, and her instinct was to run away as from a stranger, but she would sit there until he was quite close, and then she would call his name and put out her hand, the one that wore his ring, and he would pull her up and take her home.