What does the word instinctive mean?
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Relating to or caused by instinct; as instinctive actions. See Emotional. Those instinctive actions of animals which are owing to impressions made on the sensory ganglia, exciting respondent motor influences that are propagated to the various muscles of the body, are termed consensual. Consensual movements which accompany voluntary efforts without our consciousness are termed associated, ( F.) Associes.
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Relating to instinct.
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Usage examples for instinctive
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He looks upon this land as a paradise, and upon that with instinctive dread and apprehension. – The Right of American Slavery by True Worthy Hoit
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She looked down at her wrists once and made a little instinctive movement with her fingers as if to hide them under the sleeves. – Bride of the Mistletoe by James Lane Allen
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