About The Word Innate
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Innate
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What's The Definition Of Innate?
[adj] present at birth but not necessarily hereditary; acquired during fetal development
[adj] not established by conditioning or learning; "an unconditioned reflex" Synonyms | Synonyms for Innate: congenital | inborn | inherent | nonheritable | noninheritable | unconditioned | unlearned Related Terms | Find terms related to Innate: atavistic | automatic | bodily | born | coeval | congenital | connatal | connate | connatural | constitutional | deep-seated | elemental | essential | genetic | genic | hereditary | impulsive | in the blood | inborn | inbred | incarnate | indigenous | ingrained | inherent | inherited | instinctive | instinctual | intrinsic | involuntary | libidinal | matroclinous | native | native to | natural | natural to | normal | organic | patrimonial | patroclinous | physical | primal | regular | spontaneous | standard | subliminal | temperamental | typical | unacquired | unconscious | unlearned See Also | Innate In Webster's Dictionary \In"nate\, a. [L. innatus; pref. in- in + natus born, p.
p. of nasci to be born. See {Native}.]
1. Inborn; native; natural; as, innate vigor; innate
eloquence.
2. (Metaph.) Originating in, or derived from, the
constitution of the intellect, as opposed to acquired from
experience; as, innate ideas. See {A priori}, {Intuitive}.
There is an innate light in every man, discovering
to him the first lines of duty in the common notions
of good and evil. --South.
Men would not be guilty if they did not carry in
their mind common notions of morality,innate and
written in divine letters. --Fleming
(Origen).
If I could only show,as I hope I shall . . . how
men, barely by the use of their natural faculties,
may attain to all the knowledge they have, without
the help of any innate impressions; and may arrive
at certainty without any such original notions or
principles. --Locke.
3. (Bot.) Joined by the base to the very tip of a filament;
as, an innate anther. --Gray.
{Innate ideas} (Metaph.), ideas, as of God, immortality,
right and wrong, supposed by some to be inherent in the
mind, as a priori principles of knowledge.
\In*nate"\, v. t. To cause to exit; to call into being. [Obs.] ``The first innating cause.'' --Marston. |
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