instinctive
/ɪnˈstɪŋktɪv/ adjective C1- Related to or prompted by instinct.
- Driven by impulse, spontaneous and without thinking. · When approached by a stranger, Jared clenched his fists in an instinctive manner.
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With his instinctive delicacy Edmond had preferred avoiding any touch on this painful chord, and Faria had been equally silent.
The young couple gazed with astonishment at the sight of their visitor’s emotion, and wondered to see the large tears silently chasing each other down his otherwise stern and immovable features; but they felt the sacredness of his grief, and kindly refrained from questioning him as to its cause, while, with instinctive delicacy, they left him to indulge his sorrow alone.
By a sort of instinctive impulse, Franz withdrew as much as possible behind his pillar.
It was quite evident, by her manner, that her uneasiness was not feigned; and Franz himself could not resist a feeling of superstitious dread—so much the stronger in him, as it arose from a variety of corroborative recollections, while the terror of the countess sprang from an instinctive belief, originally created in her mind by the wild tales she had listened to till she believed them truths.
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