INNATENESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)