connatural

Examples

• All

• Her artistic talent seemed connatural, as she excelled at painting from a young age.

• He shows, more implicitly than explicitly, that it is habit that makes connatural knowledge connatural.

  Academic text (1992)

• He shows, more implicitly than explicitly, that it is habit that makes connatural knowledge connatural.

  Academic text (1992)

• "Assimilated" to a particular virtue in their being, the soul's cognitive and affective powers are "connatural" to it in their habitual tendencies.

  Academic text (1992)

• In a companioning approach, the thinker who occasions the reflection is less an object of scholarly research and more one who brings forth connatural thinking in us as we try to understand him and the matters that engage him.

  Academic text (2017)

• Many children have a connatural curiosity about the world around them.

Synonyms

I

innate

vsconnatural

52 5.2

A quality present from birth that is not learned

is the alternate word for the same quality present from birth

I

inborn

vsconnatural

7 3.4

Present from birth and not learned later

is the same birth-origin idea but expressed in a different form

I

inbred

vsconnatural

1 6.8

Present from birth and not learned

is the same birth-origin sense but given in another wording

I

intrinsical

vsconnatural

• Archaic

9.9

A quality that is part of something's basic nature

focuses on being present from birth rather than general essential nature

Antonyms

U

unnatural

101 4.1

Not normal or what people expect

A

acquired

• Specialized

4.1

Not present at birth but learned or developed later

How Innate

instinctive

28 4.1

connatural

• Formal

9.9

acquired

• Specialized

4.1

learned

• Formal

6.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology