innate traits
Natural from birth
Innate traits are characteristics present from birth rather than learned or acquired through experience.
The term appears in discussions of nature versus nurture: Language acquisition may depend on innate traits rather than pure imitation.
Intelligence, temperament, and certain physical features are commonly described as innate, though the line between innate and developed traits remains contested in psychology and biology.
- inbornExisting from birth
- instinctInnate behavioral tendency
- gut instinctImmediate unreasoned knowing
- hardwiredPermanently connected by wires
- hard wiredPermanently wired into circuitry
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innate traitsacquired traits
Non-inherited developed features
conditioned responses · second nature · cultural conditioning
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