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n. - The quality of being possessed at birth; The quality of being possessed as an essential characteristic

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Usage examples (40)
  • Adjective : innate musical talent. ,an innate defect in the hypothesis. ,an innate knowledge of good and evil
  • (Sydney) are collecting data about scientists 'use of the notion of innateness in several disciplines.
  • This kind of innateness has become the established wisdom in cognitive science.
  • However, the other, more significant, kind of innateness concerns not the history of the mind but its future.
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