innate :: Lexipedia - Where words have meaning

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adj. being so through innate qualities: "a natural leader"; "a born musician"; "an innate talent"

adj. present at birth but not necessarily hereditary; acquired during fetal development

adj. not established by conditioning or learning; "an unconditioned reflex"

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adj. normally existing at birth; "mankind's connatural sense of the good"

adj. tending to occur among members of a family usually by heredity; "an inherited disease"; "familial traits"; "genetically transmitted features"

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adj. normally existing at birth; "mankind's connatural sense of the good"

adj. not far removed from or suggestive of nature; "the earthy taste of warm milk fresh from the cow"; "earthy smells of new-mown grass"

adj. being or resembling a force of nature: "elemental violence"; "primitive passions"

adj. unthinking; prompted by (or as if by) instinct; "a cat's natural aversion to water"; "offering to help was as instinctive as breathing"

adj. spontaneously derived from or prompted by a natural tendency; "an intuitive revulsion"

adj. gotten through environmental forces; "acquired characteristics (such as a suntan or a broken nose) cannot be passed on"

adj. not acquirable by inheritance

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adj. established by conditioning or learning; "a conditioned response"

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