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What is the difference between inherited and instinct and innate and inborn and intuition ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between inherited and instinct and innate and inborn and intuition ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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7 Dec 2022
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Inherited means that someone has gotten something from a family or ancestor, usually it's something genetic but sometimes it can be something like a job position. For example, you can say, "I've inherited my mother's brown eyes, but my not my father's green eyes." The trait of brown eyes was passed down from your mother. If you were royalty you could say that upon your mother's death, you inherit the role of queen.
Instinct is a natural behavior. For example, dogs shake their fur to dry off even though no one taught them to, and turtles move towards the ocean after hatching because it's in their instincts.
Innate means that something has been natural or normal to someone since birth. It's almost similar to instinct except people usually talk about skill rather than survival like instinct usually is about. I used a sentence from Google which reads, "While I am naturally shy, my sister has an innate ability to charm everyone she meets."
Inborn is very similar to innate, you can call it a synonym to the word innate.
Intuition can be best described in my opinion has being able to understand or think/guess something by a "gut feeling", so not really based on by facts. Let's say you are on a dark street and a scary stranger asks you for help. You have no facts to say that the stranger is nice or evil, but your intuition tells you that you should stay safe and ignore them.
Sorry that this is long, I hope I covered what was needed.
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- English (US)
innate and inborn can be used synonymously. -means born with
"It is an innate/ inborn trait of his." (ADJ)
inherit can be thought of like this, gained something genetically or passed down (can even be objects)
"He inherited this trait from his mother."
"She inherited this money from her grandmother." (Verb)
Instinct is more something biological compared to intuition which is to do with someone's intelligence/ thinking.
simply:
-instinct is usually to do with naturality (noun), but instinctively (adverb)
-intuition is usually to do with thinking and not always natural (noun)
"It's a cats instinct to hunt (successful or not, the cat's instinct to hunt is biological as it is a predator)"
"the cat used his intuition/ intelligence to hunt (and be successful)"
- English (US)
Inherited means that someone has gotten something from a family or ancestor, usually it's something genetic but sometimes it can be something like a job position. For example, you can say, "I've inherited my mother's brown eyes, but my not my father's green eyes." The trait of brown eyes was passed down from your mother. If you were royalty you could say that upon your mother's death, you inherit the role of queen.
Instinct is a natural behavior. For example, dogs shake their fur to dry off even though no one taught them to, and turtles move towards the ocean after hatching because it's in their instincts.
Innate means that something has been natural or normal to someone since birth. It's almost similar to instinct except people usually talk about skill rather than survival like instinct usually is about. I used a sentence from Google which reads, "While I am naturally shy, my sister has an innate ability to charm everyone she meets."
Inborn is very similar to innate, you can call it a synonym to the word innate.
Intuition can be best described in my opinion has being able to understand or think/guess something by a "gut feeling", so not really based on by facts. Let's say you are on a dark street and a scary stranger asks you for help. You have no facts to say that the stranger is nice or evil, but your intuition tells you that you should stay safe and ignore them.
Sorry that this is long, I hope I covered what was needed.
- Simplified Chinese (China)
@roxas-pill Thank you for your detailed answer! Now I totally understand the differ between these words. You are so nice! 😊
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