Preternatural vs Innate - What's the difference?
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Beyond or different from what is natural or according to the regular course of things; strange; inexplicable; extraordinary; abnormal.
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(dated) Having an existence outside of the natural world.
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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.
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(botany) Joined by the base to the very tip of a filament; as, an innate anther.
To cause to exist; to call into being.
As adjectives the difference between preternatural and innate
is that preternatural is beyond or different from what is natural or according to the regular course of things; strange; inexplicable; extraordinary; abnormal while innate is inborn; native; natural; as, innate vigor; innate eloquence.As a verb innate is
to cause to exist; to call into being.preternatural
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(wikipedia preternatural)Alternative forms
* praeternatural * (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)p. 152,
- Doubtless there has been some exaggeration in the picturesque and fanciful relations of the almost preternatural skill and cunning of the Indian, [...]
- Macbeth is like a record of a preternatural and tragical event.
- Not Leonore, in that preternatural midnight excursion with her phantom lover, was more terrified than poor Maggie in this entirely natural ride on a short-paced donkey, [...]
- Vansittart Smith, fixing his eyes upon the fellow's skin, was conscious of a sudden impression that there was something inhuman and preternatural about its appearance.
Usage notes
In modern secular use, refers to extraordinary but still natural phenomena, as in “preternatural' talent”. In religious and occult usage, used similarly to supernatural, meaning “outside of nature”, but usually to a lower level than (term) – it can be used synonymously (identical to supernatural), as a hypernym (a kind of supernatural), or a coordinate term (similar to supernatural, but a distinct category). For example, in Catholic theology, ' preternatural refers to properties of creatures like angels, while (term) refers to properties of God alone.Synonyms
* (beyond or different from usual) abnormal, exceptional, extraordinary, uncanny * (not natural) paranormal, supernatural, unnaturalDerived terms
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Adjective
(-)- There is an innate light in every man, discovering to him the first lines of duty in the common notions of good and evil.
- how men may attain to all the knowledge they have, without the help of any innate impressions
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