instinctively

Etymology

instinctive + -ly

adv

  1. Innately; by instinct; without being taught.
    Fish instinctively know how to swim; most humans don't.
    She loved him so passionately, and he was so godlike in her eyes; and being, though untrained, instinctively refined, her nature cried for his tutelary guidance. 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 26
    'I am, perhaps, overgreedy, but I sense a good cook instinctively.' 1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 9, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 270

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