Instinct and Knowledge

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

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Knowledge is an antonym for instinct in idea topic.

Knowledge noun - A body of facts learned by study or experience.

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Instinct is an antonym for knowledge.

Nearby Word: knowledgeable

good	good instinct	good knowledge
full	full instinct	full knowledge
common	common instinct	common knowledge
considerable	considerable instinct	considerable knowledge
Other adjectives: collective, great, little, innate, secret, necessary, incredible, greater.

Any critical choice a character must make quickly through gut instinct instead of logic or knowledge, especially one which would be trivial if not for some incomplete information.

Source: No Time To Think
Tends to rely mostly on common-sense, gut instinct and his own innate knowledge of what the nice thing to do would be.

Source: Freudian Trio / Live-Action TV
Tulip, who really is a big dumb bruiser who's not even smart enough to be a proper drug addict - except in the field of art history, where he proves to have both astonishing depth of knowledge and natural instinct...as well of glimmers of humanity and emotion beyond rage.

Source: Genius Bruiser / Literature

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