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INNATENESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does innateness mean?
• INNATENESS (noun)
The noun INNATENESS has 1 sense:
1. the quality of being innate
Familiarity information: INNATENESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being innate
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("innateness" is a kind of...):
changelessness; unchangeability; unchangeableness; unchangingness (the quality of being unchangeable; having a marked tendency to remain unchanged)
Derivation:
innate (present at birth but not necessarily hereditary; acquired during fetal development)
innate (being talented through inherited qualities)
innate (not established by conditioning or learning)
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