Seminal vs Innate - What's the difference?
seminal | innate | Related terms |
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.
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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 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)- 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.
Synonyms
* (relating to seed) germinal * (creative) innovative, primary * (highly influential) innovative, formativeDerived terms
* seminality * seminallyAnagrams
*innate
English
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
- (Gray)