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Innate vs Systemic - What's the difference?

innate | systemic |

As adjectives the difference between innate and systemic

is that innate is inborn; native; natural; as, innate vigor; innate eloquence while systemic is embedded within and spread throughout and affecting a group, system, body, economy, market, or society as a whole.

As a verb innate

is to cause to exist; to call into being.

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

    * *

    Anagrams

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    systemic

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Embedded within and spread throughout and affecting a group, system, body, economy, market, or society as a whole.
  • (physiology) Pertaining to an entire organism.

    • Usage notes

    Not to be confused with .

    Antonyms

    * topical * endemic

    Related terms

    * system * systematic * systematization * systematize * systemic bias

    See also

    * embedded