Instinctive vs Voluntary - What's the difference?
instinctive | voluntary | Synonyms |
related to or prompted by instinct
driven by impulse, spontaneous and without thinking.
Done, given, or acting of one's own free will.
* N. W. Taylor
* Alexander Pope
Done by design or intention; intentional.
Working or done without payment.
Endowed with the power of willing.
* Hooker
Of or relating to voluntaryism.
(obsolete) Voluntarily.
*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.4:
*:And all that els was pretious and deare, / The sea unto him voluntary brings [...].
(music) A short piece of music, often having improvisation, played on a solo instrument
A volunteer
Instinctive is a synonym of voluntary.
As adjectives the difference between instinctive and voluntary
is that instinctive is related to or prompted by instinct while voluntary is done, given, or acting of one's own free will.As an adverb voluntary is
(obsolete) voluntarily.As a noun voluntary is
(music) a short piece of music, often having improvisation, played on a solo instrument.instinctive
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(en adjective)- That sin or guilt pertains exclusively to voluntary action is the true principle of orthodoxy.
- She fell to lust a voluntary prey.
- If a man accidentally kills another by lopping a tree, it is not voluntary manslaughter.
- God did not work as a necessary, but a voluntary , agent, intending beforehand, and decreeing with himself, that which did outwardly proceed from him.
- a voluntary church, in distinction from an established or state church