instinctivity

English edit

Etymology edit

instinctive +‎ -ity

Noun edit

instinctivity (usually uncountable, plural instinctivities)

The quality of being instinctive, or prompted by instinct.
- May 2, 1830, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk
  There is growth only in plants; but there is irritability, or, a better word, instinctivity, in insects.

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