본능

bonneung · [본능]

instinct

nounIntermediate

Meanings

  1. instinctA motion or movement that a living thing does naturally.
  2. instinctThe uncontrollable emotion or impulse that a living thing is born with.

Written Forms

본능Hangul
本能Hanja

Examples from Lessons (2)

그 절망적인 상황 속에서라도 작은 희망이나마 붙잡고 싶은 인간의 본능이 애처롭게 느껴졌다.

The human instinct to hold onto even the smallest hope in such a desperate situation felt pitiful.

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Humans instinctively create classification systems to understand the world.

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Korean definitions, pronunciations and learner levels are from the Basic Korean Dictionary (한국어기초사전) by the National Institute of Korean Language, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 KR.

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