innate
Example Sentences
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How much sleep you need—and the timing—is innate.
Clara Davis, an influential pediatrician, taught that children possessed innate wisdom, and thus their preferences and cravings were a better guide to what they should eat than the dreary and tyrannical “dosage method.”
They display an innate curiosity and astonishing degrees of empathy, intelligence and perceptiveness, with subjects ranging from public and social institutions to cultural and specialized spaces and the minutiae of human interactions.
From Los Angeles Times
“But also, Jeanette was a true journalist, which means she had an innate curiosity about everything.”
From Los Angeles Times
Whether or not it is innate, the faculty was recognized by the Greeks when they invented philosophy around the sixth century B.C.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
