instinctivityn.
rare.
The quality of being instinctive; proneness to instinctive action.
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instinctivity1830
1830 S. T. Coleridge Table-talk 2 May §1 There is growth only in plants; but there is irritability, or, a better word, instinctivity, in insects.
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n.1830- to make bold
- to make bones about
- to make bones about formerly also at
- to make bones about formerly also in
- to make bones about formerly also of
- to make bones about formerly also to do
- to make book
- to make boot
- to make boot of
- to make both ends meet
- to make break a vow
- to make bricks without straw
- to make buckle and tongue meet
- to make busy, good, hard shift
- to make but one word
- to make butter and cheese of
- to make butter with one's tail
- to make buttons
- to make camp
- to make capital out of
- to make care
- to make champerty
- to make change
- to make cheer
- to make cheers