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innate

adj
/ɪˈneɪt/

Etymology

The adjective is first attested in the 1420s, 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).

  1. derived from innātus — “inborn, innate”
  2. inherited from innat — “innate, inborn”

Definitions

  1. Inborn

    Inborn; existing or having existed since birth.

    • 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.

  2. Originating in, or derived from, the constitution of the intellect, as opposed to…

    Originating in, or derived from, the constitution of the intellect, as opposed to acquired from experience.

    • innate ideas
    • 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.

  3. Instinctive

    Instinctive; coming from instinct.

    • Perhaps, from an innate desire of justification, sorrow always exaggerates itself.
    • 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.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. Joined by the base to the very tip of a filament.

      • an innate anther

    2. To cause to exist

      To cause to exist; to call into being.

      • […]but the innating matter works not upon the dull matter, as upon a new material, for the innate matter is mixt with the dull part of matter[…]
      • Here you may behold how each County is innated with a particular Genius, inclining the Natives thereof to be dextrous, ſome in one profeſſion, ſome in another[…]

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Derived

innate immune system, innate immunity, innately, innateness, innatism, innatist, innative, noninnate, uninnate

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at innate. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at innate. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at innate

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA