innate

Meanings

Adjective

• Inborn; existing or having existed since birth.
• Originating in, or derived from, the constitution of the intellect, as opposed to acquired from experience.
• Instinctive; coming from instinct.
• Joined by the base to the very tip of a filament.

Verb

• To cause to exist; to call into being.

Origin

• Borrowed from Latin innātus, perfect active participle of innāscor, from in + nāscor; see natal, native.