Definitions for "Instinct"
Urged or stimulated from within; naturally moved or impelled; imbued; animated; alive; quick; as, birds instinct with life.
Specif., the natural, unreasoning, impulse by which an animal is guided to the performance of any action, without thought of improvement in the method.
To impress, as an animating power, or instinct.
Natural inward impulse; unconscious, involuntary, or unreasoning prompting to any mode of action, whether bodily, or mental, without a distinct apprehension of the end or object to be accomplished.
A natural aptitude or knack; a predilection; as, an instinct for order; to be modest by instinct.
An impulsion towards certain activities. Those psychic processes over which the ego has no control.
Instinct was a film produced in 1999 starring Anthony Hopkins, Cuba Gooding, Jr., George Dzundza, Donald Sutherland, and Maura Tierney. It was based upon Ishmael, a novel by Daniel Quinn.http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/1999/06/04/instinct/index.html In the USA the film had the working title Ishmael. In the year 2000 the film was nominated for and won a Genesis Award in the category of feature film.
Instinct is a July 1988 album by the American singer Iggy Pop. After hit album Blah Blah Blah record company expected another hit record from Iggy but he turned direction to the basics.
Instinct is the largest monthly American magazine geared towards gay men, published by Instinct Publishing since 1997. It is distributed worldwide by Curtis Circulation. It reaches a subscription audience of approximately 100,000 monthly readers in the United States with a total viewership of well over 300,000.
an agent which performs blindly and ignorantly a work of intelligence and knowledge
an unerring and automatic form of knowledge
a racial memory
a reaction that is almost uncontrollable and spontaneous
a neural mechanism
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