instinctivity

instinctivity

English

Etymology

instinctive +‎ -ity

Noun

instinctivity (usually uncountable, plural instinctivities)

1. The quality of being instinctive, or prompted by instinct.
   • May 2, 1830, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk

     There is growth only in plants; but there is irritability, or, a better word, instinctivity, in insects.