instinctiveness
Built-in behavioral impulse
The quality of being instinctive—arising from innate impulse rather than learned behavior or conscious thought.
Instinctiveness suggests automatic, unthinking response: The instinctiveness of her reaction surprised even her.
The word emphasizes the natural, undeliberated character of an action or tendency.
Existing from birth
- inherentExisting as essential part
- hardwiredPermanently connected by wires
- intrinsicBelonging by nature
- geneticRelating to heredity
congenital · native · built-in · ingrained · unlearned · hereditary · ancestral · primal
Sudden urge to act
- unpremeditatedWithout advance planning
- unthinkingLacking conscious thought
- reflexiveDirected back at subject
- unrehearsedNot practiced beforehand
impromptu · extemporaneous · offhand · improvisation · uninhibited · ad-lib · knee-jerk · reactive
Instinctive sense about something
- sixth senseExtrasensory perception ability
- hunchUnproven inner sense
- insightDeep perceptive understanding
- perceptionMental interpretation of stimuli
discernment · sensitivity · premonition · foresight · intuitiveness · foreboding · prescience · snap judgment
inborn
Existing from birth
- inherentExisting as essential part
- hardwiredPermanently connected by wires
- intrinsicBelonging by nature
genetic · congenital · native · built-in · ingrained · unlearned · hereditary · ancestral · primal · phylogenetic
impulse
Sudden urge to act
- unpremeditatedWithout advance planning
- unthinkingLacking conscious thought
- reflexiveDirected back at subject
unrehearsed · impromptu · extemporaneous · offhand · improvisation · uninhibited · ad-lib · knee-jerk · reactive · immediacy
gut feeling
Instinctive sense about something
- sixth senseExtrasensory perception ability
- hunchUnproven inner sense
- insightDeep perceptive understanding
perception · discernment · sensitivity · premonition · foresight · intuitiveness · foreboding · prescience · snap judgment · reading
instinctivenesslearnedness
Scholarly wisdom accumulated
training · learned behavior · conditioning · cultivation · education
instinctivenessdeliberateness
Careful intention in action
deliberation · intentionality · thoughtfulness · reflectiveness · premeditation
instinctivenessartificiality
State of being contrived
affectation · unnaturalness · forcedness · mechanicalness · stiltedness
instinct, instincts, instinctive, instigate, instigator, instinctual, instinctively, instigation, instinctually