WORD to trust in.


Instinct:
[in-stingkt]

-noun
1. an inborn pattern of activity or tendency to action common to a given biological species.
2. a natural or innate impulse, inclination, or tendency.
3. a natural aptitude or gift.
4. natural intuitive power.


Origin:
1412, "a prompting," from L. intinctus "intigation, impulse," pp. of instinguere "to incite, impel," from in "on" + stinguere "prick, goad". Sense of "innate tendency" is first recorded 1568, from notion of "natural promoting."

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