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名詞

instinctivity (usually uncountable, plural instinctivities)

1. The quality of being instinctive, or prompted by instinct.
   • 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, […], published 1835, →OCLC, page 111:

     There is growth only in plants; but there is irritability, or, a better word, instinctivity, in insects.