innate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈneɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
Etymology: The adjective is first attested in the 1420's, the verb in 1602; from Middle English innat(e) (“innate, inborn”), borrowed from Latin innātus (“inborn, innate”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), perfect active participle of innāscor (“to be born in, grow up in”), from in- (“in, at on”) + nāscor (“to be born”); see natal, native. The verb is derived from the adjective, see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Ironically, given France's innate reluctance to permit competition at home, the first breach in Renfe's monopoly came from SNCF offshoot Ouigo España in 2021.
ref: 2023 July 26, Ben Jones, “EU open access growth offers pointers for UK hopefuls”, in RAIL, number 988, page 32:
glosses: Inborn; existing or having existed since birth.
examples: text: innate ideas
text: There is an innate light in every man, discovering to him the first lines of duty, in the common notions of good and evil, which, by cultivation and improvement, may be advanced to higher and brighter discoveries.
ref: 1691 November 1, Robert South, “An Account of the Nature and Measures of Conscience”, in Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume II, Oxford: UP, published 1842, page 29:
text: It would be ſufficient to convince unprejudiced Readers of the falſeneſs of this Suppoſition, if I ſhould only ſhew (as I hope I ſhall in the following Parts of this Diſcourſe) how Men barely by the Uſe of their natural Faculties, may attain to all the Knowledge that they have, without the help of any innate Impreſſions[…]
ref: 1690, John Locke, “No innate Principles in the Mind”, in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, book I, page 4:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Originating in, or derived from, the constitution of the intellect, as opposed to acquired from experience.
examples: text: Perhaps, from an innate desire of justification, sorrow always exaggerates itself.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IX, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 198:
text: As if she held the clue to something secret in his breast, of the nature of which he was hardly informed himself. As if she had an innate knowledge of one jarring and discordant string within him, and her very breath could sound it.
ref: 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, chapter 3, in Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:
glosses: Instinctive; coming from instinct.
examples: text: an innate anther
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
coordinate_terms: adnate
connate
glosses: Joined by the base to the very tip of a filament.
Synonyms: word: connate
word: connatural
word: congenital
word: congenite
word: genetous
word: inborn
word: inbred
word: indigenous
word: ingenite
word: innate
word: native
word: natural
word: to the manner born
word: unlearned
word: unlearnt
Hypernyms: word: intrinsic
Hyponyms: word: hardwired
word: instinctive
Derived terms: innate immune system
innate immunity
innately
innateness
innatism
innatist
innative
noninnate
uninnate
Related terms: word: antenatal
word: nascent
word: natal
word: native
word: nativism
word: natural
word: naturalism
word: nature
word: naturism
word: prenatal
word: a priori
word: intuitive
word: run in the family
word: inveterate