Synonyms for instinctively
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1. instinctivelyadverb

   Synonyms:
   instinctually

2. instinctivelyadverb

   Innately, by instinct, without being taught.

   Fish instinctively know how to swim; most humans don't.

   Synonyms:
   instinctually

Princeton's WordNet

1. instinctivelyadverb

   as a matter of instinct

   "he instinctively grabbed the knife"

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1. reflexively

   "reflex" and "instinct" are synonyms so their adverbial terms should also be synonyms.

   amanda instinctively punched andrew in the face for jumping out and scaring her when they were at the haunted house.

   Submitted by anonymous on January 22, 2020  

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1. Hazlitt:

   Women never reason and therefore they are, comparatively, seldom wrong. They judge instinctively of what falls under their immediate observation or experience, and do not trouble themselves about remote or doubtful consequences. If they make no profound discoveries, they do not involve themselves in gross absurdities. It is only by the help of reason and logical inference, according to Hobbes, that ?man becomes excellently wise or excellently foolish.?

2. Alexis Hiniker:

   Alexa isn't going to be able to teach a child to speak, just like children can't learn to speak from TV, even though smart speakers — unlike TV — are interactive, they are nowhere near the sophistication of a human, or more specifically, the sophistication of an adult who can instinctively coach a child in picking up her first language.

3. Dominik Bach:

   When we talk about reducing fear memory, we’re not talking about deleting the memory of what actually happened, the participants may not forget that they received a shock when the screen was red, but they ‘forget’ to be instinctively scared when they next see a red screen. Learning to fear threats is an important ability … helping us to avoid dangers. (But) over-prediction of threat can cause tremendous suffering and distress in anxiety disorders such as PTSD.

4. Malcolm Muggeridge:

   There's nothing is this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans.

5. Thomas Mann, Death in Venice:

   For one human being instinctively feels respect and love for another human being so long as he does not know him well enough to judge him; and that he does not, the craving he feels is evidence.