- an inborn pattern of activity or tendency to action common to a given biological species.
- a natural or innate impulse, inclination, or tendency.
- a natural aptitude or gift: an instinct for making money.
- natural intuitive power.
- filled or infused with some animating principle (usually followed by with): instinct with life.
- animated by some inner force.
- the innate capacity of an animal to respond to a given stimulus in a relatively fixed way
- inborn intuitive power
- a natural and apparently innate aptitude
- rare (postpositive often foll by with)
- animated or impelled (by)
- imbued or infused (with)
