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Apparently innate behaviour
Answer for the clue "Apparently innate behaviour ", 13 letters:
second nature
Word definitions for second nature in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Second Nature may refer to: Musical recordings : Second Nature (Katherine Jenkins album) , 2004 Second Nature (The Young Gods album) , 2000 Second Nature (Margaret Urlich album) , 1999 Second Nature (Flying Colors album) , 2014 "Second Nature" (Dan Hartman ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Latin secundum naturam "according to nature" (Augustine, Macrobius, etc.), literally "following nature;" from medieval Aristotelian philosophy, contrasted to phenomena that were super naturam ("above nature," such as God's grace), extra ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context idiomatic English) A mindset, skill, or type of behavior so ingrained through habit or practice that it seems natural, automatic, or without a basis in conscious thought.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. acquired behavior that is practiced so long it seems innate
Usage examples of second nature.
It wasn't yet second nature to Jonathan, which produced friction every now and then, or sometimes more often than every now and then.
He was not a Foundation man and the interplay of forces at the twist of a knob or the breaking of a contact was not second nature to him.
Trying to adjust to the idea that he had once used all this stuff by second nature.
As a young man, he had found distinguishing between debriefing and confession very difficult, but now it was second nature.
I must first of all call the reader's attention to one or two rules which every conjurer learns at the commencement of his study, and which he learns to apply so constantly that it becomes second nature to him.
How surely do the habits of a lifetime become second nature to us!
Not the travel, the vulnerability, the inability to use the magic that had long ago become second nature.