• n.
    ⦿inborn pattern of behavior often responsive to specific stimuli
    lexical concept
  • altruistic instincts in social animals
  • the spawning instinct in salmon

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechnoun
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:inherent aptitude
  2. enl:instinct
wn:interlingual indexili:i66455
wn:eq synonymdn:instinkt§1

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skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:labelinherent aptitudeinstinct