Voluntary vs Innate - What's the difference?
voluntary | innate | Related terms |
Done, given, or acting of one's own free will.
* N. W. Taylor
* Alexander Pope
Done by design or intention; intentional.
Working or done without payment.
Endowed with the power of willing.
* Hooker
Of or relating to voluntaryism.
(obsolete) Voluntarily.
*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.4:
*:And all that els was pretious and deare, / The sea unto him voluntary brings [...].
(music) A short piece of music, often having improvisation, played on a solo instrument
A volunteer
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
* John Locke
(botany) Joined by the base to the very tip of a filament; as, an innate anther.
To cause to exist; to call into being.
Voluntary is a related term of innate.
As adjectives the difference between voluntary and innate
is that voluntary is done, given, or acting of one's own free will while innate is inborn; native; natural; as, innate vigor; innate eloquence.As an adverb voluntary
is (obsolete) voluntarily.As a noun voluntary
is (music) a short piece of music, often having improvisation, played on a solo instrument.As a verb innate is
to cause to exist; to call into being.voluntary
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- That sin or guilt pertains exclusively to voluntary action is the true principle of orthodoxy.
- She fell to lust a voluntary prey.
- If a man accidentally kills another by lopping a tree, it is not voluntary manslaughter.
- God did not work as a necessary, but a voluntary , agent, intending beforehand, and decreeing with himself, that which did outwardly proceed from him.
- a voluntary church, in distinction from an established or state church
Synonyms
* discretionary * optional * willful * volitionalAntonyms
* compulsory * involuntary * obligatoryDerived terms
* voluntarilyAdverb
(en adverb)Noun
(voluntaries)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)