Innate

[ɪ'neɪt;'ɪneɪt] or [ɪ'net]

Definition

(a.) Inborn; native; natural; as, innate vigor; innate eloquence.

(a.) Originating in, or derived from, the constitution of the intellect, as opposed to acquired from experience; as, innate ideas. See A priori, Intuitive.

(a.) Joined by the base to the very tip of a filament; as, an innate anther.

(v. t.) To cause to exit; to call into being.

Checked by Dora

Synonyms and Synonymous

a. Inborn, inbred, native, natural, inherent, not adventitious.

Checker: Roy

Synonyms and Antonyms

[See CONGENITAL]

[See INHABITANT]

Edited by Francine

Definition

adj. inborn: natural to the mind instinctive inherent.—adv. Inn′ately.—n. Inn′ateness.—adj. Innā′tive native.—Innate ideas a priori principles of knowledge and of action the word 'innate' implying that the power of recognising such principles is provided for in the constitution of the mind.

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Unserious Contents or Definition

adj. Natural inherent—as innate ideas that is to say ideas that we are born with having had them previously imparted to us. The doctrine of innate ideas is one of the most admirable faiths of philosophy being itself an innate idea and therefore inaccessible to disproof though Locke foolishly supposed himself to have given it 'a black eye. ' Among innate ideas may be mentioned the belief in one's ability to conduct a newspaper in the greatness of one's country in the superiority of one's civilization in the importance of one's personal affairs and in the interesting nature of one's diseases.

Typist: Randall

Examples

Typist: Randall

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