adjective
innate
ih-NAYT/ɪˈneɪt/
Present from birth or as a natural quality.
The hatchlings' innate instinct guides them toward the sea without instruction.
Etymology
The pieces express being ‘born in’: an innate quality belongs to someone from birth, rather than being acquired through learning or experience.
In context
there's nothing innate within us right so like john locke he called it he called our minds a tabula rasa a clean slate nothing innate right
More examples
- Practice helps him develop his innate talent for music.
- The immune system has innate defenses against infection.
- She believes that people have an innate desire to belong.
Forms
innate
innately adverb — By nature rather than through learning.
innateness noun — The quality of being inborn or inherent.