Drive, automatic response, and behavioral trait are all synonyms for instinct. Reason and deliberation are these antonyms of instinct. And here are another 30 synonyms for instinct.
Instinct Synonyms
- Automatic response
- Behavioral trait
- Drive
- Emotional response
- Feeling
- Gut reaction
- Impulse
- Inborn trait
- Innate behavior
- Innate knowledge
- Internal prompting
- Intuition
- Intuitive sense
- Involuntary action
- Natural tendency
- Nature
- Predisposition
- Primal urge
- Propensity
- Reaction
- Reflex action
- Reflex
- Sensation
- Sensibility
- Sixth sense
- Spontaneity
- Subconscious feeling
- Urge
- Unconscious behavior