innate ability
Born with it
An innate ability is a skill or capacity someone is born with rather than one developed through training or practice.
The phrase often appears in debates about talent versus effort: She has an innate ability for languages.
Whether any ability is truly innate or shaped by early environment remains contested, but the term emphasizes natural gift over acquired skill.
- talentInborn aptitude
- raw talentInnate ability before training
- giftItem given freely
- aptitudeInnate capability
- knackInnate ease at something
flair · genius · born with it · instinct · sixth sense · natural · born · prodigy · gifted child · intuition · hardwired · inborn · in the blood · raw · untaught · effortless · predisposition · endowment
- Human Developmentgrowth, heredity, aging, genetics, puberty
- Geniusgenius, prodigy, brainiac, savant, brilliance
- natural/raw thingswilderness, raw materials, wild animals, untouched land, virgin forest
- hidden potentialhidden talent, raw talent, undiscovered talent
- autopilotautopilot, autothrottle, flight director, autoland, pitch control
innate abilitynurture
Support growth and development
environmental influence · conditioning · socialization · enculturation · learned behavior
innate, innately, innateness, ability, ably, unable, inability, disable, disabled