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Innate vs Ingrained - What's the difference?

innate | ingrained |

As adjectives the difference between innate and ingrained

is that innate is inborn; native; natural; as, innate vigor; innate eloquence while ingrained is being an element; present in the essence of a thing.

As verbs the difference between innate and ingrained

is that innate is to cause to exist; to call into being while ingrained is past tense of ingrain.

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.

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    ingrained

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Being an element; present in the essence of a thing
  • * '>citation
  • Fixed, established

    • Synonyms

  • inherent

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (ingrain)

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