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Innated vs Innate - What's the difference?

innated | innate |

As verbs the difference between innated and innate

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

As adjectives the difference between innated and innate

is that innated is innate while innate is inborn; native; natural; as, innate vigor; innate eloquence.

innated

English

Verb

(head)
  • (innate)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Innate.
  • *, II.11:
  • *:I abhorre them (I say) with so naturall, and so innated an opinion, that the very same instinct and impression, which I suckt from my nurse, I have so kept, that no occasions could ever make me alter the same.

    • 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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