See instinctive in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"code": "hy",
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"word": "инстинктивен"
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"sense": "related to or prompted by instinct",
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"sense": "related to or prompted by instinct",
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"sense": "related to or prompted by instinct",
"word": "instintivo"
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"sense": "related to or prompted by instinct",
"word": "instinktiv"
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"sense": "related to or prompted by instinct",
"word": "सहज"
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"sense": "related to or prompted by instinct",
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"word": "instingtif"
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"word": "բնազդային"
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"roman": "nesăznatelen",
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"roman": "nágonski",
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"word": "на́гонски"
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"sense": "driven by impulse, spontaneous and without thinking",
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