inherent

See also: inhérent

English

Alternative forms

• inhærent (archaic)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈhɪəɹənt/, /ɪnˈhɛɹənt/

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Adjective

inherent (not comparable)

1. Naturally as part or consequence of something.

   Synonyms: inbuilt, ingrained, intrinsic; see also Thesaurus:intrinsic

   Antonyms: extrinsic; see also Thesaurus:extrinsic

   • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 244–245:

     There is a stern melancholy in his dark features, inherent and engrossing, which rivets the attention.

   • 2014 June 14, “It's a gas”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8891:

     One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. […] But out of sight is out of mind. And that, together with the inherent yuckiness of the subject, means that many old sewers have been neglected and are in dire need of repair.

Usage notes

• Not to be confused with inherit.

Derived terms

• inherently
• inherent power
• inherent vice
• inherent vowel
• noninherent

Related terms

• adherent
• coherent
• inhere
• inherence
• inherency
• inherently

Translations

natural part or consequence

Arabic: مُتَأَصِّل (mutaʔaṣṣil) Aragonese: please add this translation if you can Armenian: հատուկ (hy) (hatuk), ներհատուկ (hy) (nerhatuk) Asturian: inherente Bashkir: хас (xas) Belarusian: прыро́джаны (pryródžany), уласці́вы (ulascívy) Breton: please add this translation if you can Bulgarian: присъ́щ (bg) (prisǎ́št), вроден (bg) (vroden), сво́йствен (bg) (svójstven) Burmese: please add this translation if you can Catalan: inherent (ca) Cherokee: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Mandarin: 固有 (zh) (gùyǒu), 內在 / 内在 (zh) (nèizài) Czech: inherentní, vrozený (cs) Danish: naturlig (da), iboende Dutch: inherent (nl), samengaand (nl) Esperanto: propre (eo) Estonian: omane Finnish: luontainen (fi), synnynnäinen (fi) French: intrinsèque (fr), inhérent (fr) Galician: inherente (gl) Georgian: ჩვეული (čveuli), დამახასიათებელი (damaxasiatebeli) German: innewohnend (de), inhärent (de) Greek: συμφυής (el) (symfyís) Hebrew: טָבוּעַ (tavua) Hungarian: inherens (hu), benne rejlő Icelandic: áskapaður, meðfæddur, eðlislægur Ido: inheranta (io) Italian: insito (it), inerente (it), attinente (it), pertinente (it) Japanese: 固有の (ja) (こゆうの, koyū no) Khmer: ភ្ជាប់ (km) (pcoap) Korean: 고유의 (ko) (goyuui) Latvian: raksturīgs Lithuanian: būdingas (lt) Macedonian: вроден (vroden) Manx: dooghyssagh Mirandese: please add this translation if you can Norwegian: Bokmål: iboende (no), naturlig (no) Occitan: inerent (oc) Polish: nieodłączny (pl) m, właściwy (pl) m, inherentny (pl) m, przyrodzony m Portuguese: inerente (pt) Romanian: inerent (ro), intrinsec (ro) Russian: врождённый (ru) (vroždjónnyj), прирождённый (ru) (priroždjónnyj), прису́щий (ru) (prisúščij), сво́йственный (ru) (svójstvennyj) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: инхерѐнтан, сво̀јствен Roman: inhèrentan (sh), svòjstven (sh) Slovak: inherentný, prirodzený, vrodený Slovene: neločljivo, inherenten Spanish: inherente (es) Swedish: naturligt nedärvd, inneboende (sv) c, inherent (sv), naturlig (sv), medfödd (sv), inneburen (sv) Tagalog: kadikit Tamil: உள்ளார்ந்த (uḷḷārnta) Telugu: please add this translation if you can Turkish: doğal (tr) Ukrainian: приро́джений (pryródženyj), власти́вий (uk) (vlastývyj) Volapük: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• “inherent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “inherent”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin inhaerentem.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

inherent m or f (masculine and feminine plural inherents)

1. inherent

Derived terms

• inherentment

Further reading

• “inherent”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “inherent”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “inherent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “inherent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.