Usually means: Innate, automatic response to stimuli.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. instinct: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. instinct: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. instinct: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. instinct: Collins English Dictionary
  5. instinct: Vocabulary.com
  6. Instinct, instinct: Wordnik
  7. instinct: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. instinct: Wiktionary
  9. instinct: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. instinct: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. instinct: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. instinct: Dictionary.com
  13. instinct: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. instinct: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Instinct: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. instinct: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. instinct: Rhymezone
  19. instinct, instinct (het), instinct (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. instinct: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Instinct: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. instinct: Free Dictionary
  23. instinct: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. instinct: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. instinct: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. instinct: Financial dictionary
  2. instinct: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. instinct: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  4. Terms in the field of Psychiatry and Neurology (No longer online)
  5. instinct: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. instinct: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Instinct: Catholic Encyclopedia

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bird On! (No longer online)
  2. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. instinct: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See instincts as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A natural or inherent impulse or behaviour.
noun:  An intuitive reaction not based on rational conscious thought.
adjective:  (archaic) Imbued, charged (with something).

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