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1.	An inborn pattern of behavior that is characteristic of a species and is often a response to specific [environmental] stimuli: the spawning instinct in salmon; altruistic instincts in social animals. 
2.	A powerful motivation or impulse. 
3.	An innate capability or aptitude: an instinct for tact and diplomacy.
1.	Deeply filled or imbued: words instinct with love. 
2.	Obsolete. Impelled from within. 
instinct
•	Natural inward impulse; unconscious, involuntary, or unreasoning prompting to any mode of action, whether bodily, or mental, without a distinct apprehension of the end or object to be accomplished.
•	An instinct is a propensity prior to experience, and [independent] of [instructions]. --Paley.
•	An instinct is a blind tendency to some mode of action, [independent] of any [consideration], on the part of the agent, of the end to which the action leads. --Whately.
An instinct is an agent which performs blindly and ignorantly a work of intelligence and knowledge. --Sir W. Hamilton.
•	By a divine instinct, men's minds mistrust Ensuing dangers. --Shak.
•	The natural, unreasoning, impulse by which an animal is guided to the performance of any action, without of improvement in the method.
•	The resemblance between what originally was a habit, and an instinct becomes so close as not to be distinguished. --Darwin.
•	A natural aptitude or knack; a predilection; as, an instinct for order; to be modest by instinct.

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