All instinct synonyms

noun instinct

• intuition — direct perception of truth, fact, etc., independent of any reasoning process; immediate apprehension.
• knack — a special skill, talent, or aptitude: He had a knack for saying the right thing.
• talent — a special natural ability or aptitude: a talent for drawing.
• hunch — to thrust out or up in a hump; arch: to hunch one's back.
• sentiment — an attitude toward something; regard; opinion.
• aptitude — Someone's aptitude for a particular kind of work or activity is their ability to learn it quickly and to do it well.
• impulse — the influence of a particular feeling, mental state, etc.: to act under a generous impulse; to strike out at someone from an angry impulse.
• sense — any of the faculties, as sight, hearing, smell, taste, or touch, by which humans and animals perceive stimuli originating from outside or inside the body: My sense of smell tells me that dinner is ready.
• savvy — experienced, knowledgable, and well-informed; shrewd (often used in combination): consumers who are savvy about prices; a tech-savvy entrepreneur.
• feeling — a quality of an object that is perceived by feeling or touching: the soft feel of cotton.
• tendency — a natural or prevailing disposition to move, proceed, or act in some direction or toward some point, end, or result: the tendency of falling bodies toward the earth.
• inclination — a disposition or bent, especially of the mind or will; a liking or preference: Much against his inclination, he was forced to resign.
• urge — to push or force along; impel with force or vigor: to urge the cause along.
• proclivity — natural or habitual inclination or tendency; propensity; predisposition: a proclivity to meticulousness.
• predisposition — the fact or condition of being predisposed: a predisposition to think optimistically.
• gift — gamete intrafallopian transfer: a laparoscopic process in which eggs are retrieved from an ovary by aspiration and inserted, along with sperm, into the fallopian tube of another woman.
• know-how — the fact or state of knowing; knowledge.
• nose — the part of the face or facial region in humans and certain animals that contains the nostrils and the organs of smell and functions as the usual passageway for air in respiration: in humans it is a prominence in the center of the face formed of bone and cartilage, serving also to modify or modulate the voice.
• faculty — an ability, natural or acquired, for a particular kind of action: a faculty for making friends easily.
• nature — has the X nature
• character — The character of a person or place consists of all the qualities they have that make them distinct from other people or places.
• makeup — facial cosmetics, as eye shadow or lipstick.
• disposition — the predominant or prevailing tendency of one's spirits; natural mental and emotional outlook or mood; characteristic attitude: a girl with a pleasant disposition.
• constitution — The constitution of a country or organization is the system of laws which formally states people's rights and duties.
• gut feeling — an instinctive feeling, as opposed to an opinion based on facts
• idea — any conception existing in the mind as a result of mental understanding, awareness, or activity.
• drive — to send, expel, or otherwise cause to move by force or compulsion: to drive away the flies; to drive back an attacking army; to drive a person to desperation.
• reflex — Physiology. noting or pertaining to an involuntary response to a stimulus, the nerve impulse from a receptor being transmitted inward to a nerve center that in turn transmits it outward to an effector.
• compulsion — A compulsion is a strong desire to do something, which you find difficult to control.
• need — a requirement, necessary duty, or obligation: There is no need for you to go there.
• flair — a natural talent, aptitude, or ability; bent; knack: a flair for rhyming.
• ability — Your ability to do something is the fact that you can do it.
• gut reaction — instinctive response
• sixth sense — a power of perception beyond the five senses; intuition: His sixth sense warned him to be cautious.