What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Inborn vs Ingenerate - What's the difference?

inborn | ingenerate |

As adjectives the difference between inborn and ingenerate

is that inborn is innate, possessed by an organism at birth while ingenerate is innate, inborn.

As a verb ingenerate is

to generate or produce within; to beget or engender; to cause.

inborn

English

Adjective

(-)
  • innate, possessed by an organism at birth
  • * September 20 1995 , writing in The Guardian'', '' From Venus and Mars
    • However, a scientific study just published in American Psychologist provides strong reasons to doubt that there are many inborn differences between genders.
  • inherited or hereditary

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * inbornness

    Anagrams

    *

    ingenerate

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Innate, inborn.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.6:
    • Pure and unspotted from all loathly crime / That is ingenerate in fleshly slime.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • Those virtues were rather feigned and affected things to serve his ambition, than true qualities ingenerate in his judgement or nature.

    Verb

    (ingenerat)
  • To generate or produce within; to beget or engender; to cause.
    • (Mede)
  • * Sir M. Hale
    • Those noble habits are ingenerated in the soul.
    ----