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Seminal vs Innate - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between seminal and innate

is that seminal is of or relating to seed or semen while innate is inborn; native; natural; as, innate vigor; innate eloquence.

As a noun seminal

is a seed.

As a verb innate is

to cause to exist; to call into being.

seminal

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or relating to seed or semen.
  • Creative or having the power to originate.
  • Highly influential, especially in some original way, and providing a basis for future development or research.
  • * Hare
  • The idea of God is, beyond all question or comparison, the one great seminal principle.
    "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" was a seminal work in the modern philosophy of science.
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  • Synonyms

    * (relating to seed) germinal * (creative) innovative, primary * (highly influential) innovative, formative

    Derived terms

    * seminality * seminally

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A seed.
  • * Sir Thomas Browne
  • the seminals of spiders and scorpions

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    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

    Verb

  • To cause to exist; to call into being.
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