inborn
Present at birth
Inborn describes qualities present from birth, not acquired through experience or learning: an inborn talent for music, inborn reflexes.
The word suggests something fundamental to a person's nature rather than developed over time.
Inborn often appears in discussions of nature versus nurture: Is musical ability inborn or learned?
Belonging by nature
- naturalNot artificially produced
- inherentExisting as essential part
- nativeOriginating from a place
- fundamentalForming the base
essential · elemental · primordial · primal · hardwired · deep-seated · ingrained · constitutional
Passed through generations
- geneticRelating to heredity
- inheritedReceived from forebears
- genotypeOrganism's complete allele set
- phenotypeObservable characteristics of organism
alleles · mutation · heredity · heritability · recessive · dominant · epigenetics · chromosomal
intrinsic
Belonging by nature
fundamental · essential · elemental · primordial · primal · hardwired · deep-seated · ingrained · constitutional · organic
hereditary
Passed through generations
phenotype · alleles · mutation · heredity · heritability · recessive · dominant · epigenetics · chromosomal · DNA
reflex
Involuntary stimulus response
startle · fight-or-flight · survival · maternal · imprinting · homing · migration · foraging · nesting · territoriality
gifted
Given as present
knack · flair · endowment · ability · predisposition · capacity · potential · inclination · bent · faculty