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inherent

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adjective

The definition of inherent is an essential quality that is part of a person or thing.
An example of inherent is a bird's ability to fly.

Inherent is a bird's ability to fly.

Inherent is a bird's ability to fly.

inherent

adjective

existing in someone or something as a natural and inseparable quality, characteristic, or right; innate; basic; inborn

Origin of inherent

Classical Latin inhaerens, present participle of inhaerere: see inhere

Related Forms:

inherently
adverb

inherent

adjective

Existing as an essential constituent or characteristic; intrinsic: the dangers inherent in the surgery; the inherent instability of financial markets.

Origin of inherent

Latin inhaerēns, inhaerent-, present participle of inhaerēre, to inhere; see inhere.

Related Forms:

in·her′ent·ly
adverb

inherent

Adjective

(not comparable)

Naturally as part or consequence of something.
You are a human being. You have rights inherent in that reality. You have dignity and worth that exists prior to law. — (Lyn Beth Neylon).

Usage notes

Not to be confused with inherit.

Related terms

Antonyms

extrinsic

Origin

From Latin inhaerentem, accusative singular of inhaerēns, present active participle of inhaereō (“I am closely connected with; adhere to”).

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While I was dumbfounded, inherent pragmatism caused me to further prompt.
While he wanted to avoid further involvement in Edith Shipton's troubled world, he felt proud of his wife inherent sense of compassion toward anyone in trouble.
Equity here is defined to mean "any body of rules existing by the side of the original civil law, founded on distinct principles, and claiming incidentally to supersede the civil law in virtue of a superior sanctity inherent in those principles."
If the frequent presence of a kink in the tail be an inherent feature, the breed is evidently related to the other kink-tailed Malay cats which, as already stated, have a cry differing from that of European cats.
Chadwick (Studies on AngloSaxon Institutions, 1905) says that "the sense of subordination must have been inherent in the word from the earliest time," but it has no connexion with the German dienen, to serve.

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