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innate
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin inn?tus (“inborn”), perfect active participle of inn?scor (“be born in, grow up in”), from in (“in, at on”) + n?scor (“be born”); see natal, native.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??ne?t/
- Rhymes: -e?t
Adjective
innate (not comparable)
- Inborn; existing or having existed since birth.
- (philosophy) Originating in, or derived from, the constitution of the intellect, as opposed to acquired from experience.
- Instinctive; coming from instinct.
- 1848, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, Chapter 3
- 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.
- 1848, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, Chapter 3
- (botany) Joined by the base to the very tip of a filament.
Usage notes
- Nouns often used with "innate": knowledge, idea, immunity, etc.
Synonyms
- (existing or having existed since birth): See also Thesaurus:innate
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
See also
- a priori
- intuitive.
Verb
innate (third-person singular simple present innates, present participle innating, simple past and past participle innated)
- (obsolete) To cause to exist; to call into being.
Translations
References
- innate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- innate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- annite, ante in, nanite, tannie
Italian
Adjective
innate f pl
- feminine plural of innato
Latin
Participle
inn?te
- vocative masculine singular of inn?tus
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hereditary
English
Etymology
From Latin hereditarius, from hereditas 'inheritance', from heres 'heir'
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /h????d?t(?)?i/
- (General American) IPA(key): /h????d??t??i/
- Hyphenation: he?red?i?ta?ry
Adjective
hereditary (comparative more hereditary, superlative most hereditary)
- Passed on as an inheritance, by last will or intestate.
- Of a title, honor or right: legally granted to somebody's descendant after that person's death.
- Duke is a hereditary title which was created in Norman times.
- Of a person: holding a legally hereditary title or rank.
- hereditary rulers
- Of a disease or trait: passed from a parent to offspring in the genes
- Haemophilia is hereditary in his family.
- (mathematics) Of a ring: such that all submodules of projective modules over the ring are also projective.
Synonyms
- inhereditary
Antonyms
- nonhereditary
Derived terms
Related terms
- see heir
Translations
Noun
hereditary (plural hereditaries)
- A hereditary ruler; a hereditary peer in the House of Lords.
See also
- congenital
Anagrams
- erythraeid
hereditary From the web:
- what hereditary means
- what hereditary diseases
- does hereditary mean genetic
- what conditions are hereditary
- what is considered hereditary
- is hereditary the same as genetic
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