a distinctive emotional aura experienced instinctively

as a matter of instinct

an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus

instinctive knowing (without the use of rational processes)

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unthinking; prompted by (or as if by) instinct

To force or drive forward or onward; impel, To move or impel to action, effort, or speed; spur, To be pressing in argument; to insist; to persist, transitive verb_ To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward, To press the mind or will of; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity, To treat with forcible means; to take severe or violent measures with, verb_ spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts, force or impel in an indicated direction, push for something, noun_ an instinctive motive, A strong desire; an itch to do something, The act of urging

appealing to or using the intellect, involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct, Suitable for exercising the intellect; formed by, and existing for, the intellect alone; perceived by the intellect, noun_ An intellectual person, The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties_ commonly in the plural, A learned person or one of high intelligence

a card or badge used to identify the bearer, (psychoanalysis) primitive instincts and energies underlying all psychic activity, any document testifying to the identity of the bearer, especially a card or badge

detected by instinct or inference rather than by recognized perceptual cues, generally recognized to be true, as seen or understood by an individual, verb_ Simple past tense and past participle of perceive