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Innate vs Automatic - What's the difference?

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Innate is a related term of automatic.


As adjectives the difference between innate and automatic

is that innate is inborn; native; natural; as, innate vigor; innate eloquence while automatic is capable of operating without external control or intervention.

As a verb innate

is to cause to exist; to call into being.

As a noun automatic is

a car with automatic transmission.

innate

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Inborn; native; natural; as, innate vigor; innate eloquence.
  • Originating in, or derived from, the constitution of the intellect, as opposed to acquired from experience; as, innate ideas. See a priori, intuitive.
  • * South
    • There is an innate light in every man, discovering to him the first lines of duty in the common notions of good and evil.
  • * John Locke
    • how men may attain to all the knowledge they have, without the help of any innate impressions
  • (botany) Joined by the base to the very tip of a filament; as, an innate anther.
    • (Gray)

    Usage notes

    * Nouns often used with "innate": knowledge, idea, immunity, etc.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * innateness

    Related terms

    * antenatal * nascent * natal * native * nativism * natural * nature * naturism * naturalism * prenatal

    Verb

  • To cause to exist; to call into being.

    • References

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    Anagrams

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    automatic

    English

    Alternative forms

    * automatick

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Capable of operating without external control or intervention.
    • The automatic clothes washer was a great labor-saving device
  • Done out of habit or without conscious thought.
    • The reaction was automatic : flight!
  • (of a firearm such as a machine gun) Firing continuously as long as the trigger is pressed until ammunition is exhausted.
  • (computing, of a local variable) Automatically added to and removed from the stack during the course of function calls.
  • (maths, of a group) Having one or more finite-state automata

    • Synonyms

    * (without conscious thought) perfunctory, thoughtless, instinctive

    Antonyms

    * (capable of operating without external control) manual * (without conscious thought) voluntary

    Derived terms

    * automatically * automaticity * automatic transmission * automatical

    Related terms

    * automagical * automat * automaton * automation * automatization * automatize * automobile * autopilot

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A car with automatic transmission.
    • I never learned to drive a stick. I can only drive an automatic .
  • A semi-automatic firearm.

    • Antonyms

    * (car with automatic transmission) stick, stickshift; manual transmission; standard transmission