Feeling and Instinct

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Feeling

Feeling noun - A subjective response to a person, thing, or situation.

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Instinct is a synonym for feeling in opinion topic. In some cases you can use "Instinct" instead a noun "Feeling", when it comes to topics like idea.

Nearby Words: feel, feelingly, feeler, feeing

Instinct

Instinct noun - Inborn pattern of behavior often responsive to specific stimuli.

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Feeling is a synonym for instinct in intuition topic. You can use "Feeling" instead a noun "Instinct", if it concerns topics such as idea, natural inclination.

Nearby Words: instinctive, instinctively, instinctual

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good	good feeling	good instinct
similar	similar feeling	similar instinct
sheer	sheer feeling	sheer instinct
simple	simple feeling	simple instinct
Other adjectives: strong, massive, great, little, bad, cold, motherly, incredible, overwhelming.

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The point is reinforced by Wendell feeling explicitly ashamed for his poor performance and apparent lack of 'killer instinct' during his earlier S.H.I.E.L.D.

Source: You Were Trying Too Hard
Another level is to actually feel the sensation of pain, but utterly lack the knowledge and instinct that pain is anything but a different kind of feeling.

Source: Feel No Pain
It requires some kind of instinct or gut feeling to get it right.

Source: Series / NUMB3RS

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