Existing or present from birth; innate or inborn; in botany, united or grown together from the base.
From Latin 'connatus,' past participle of 'connasci' (to be born together), from 'con-' (together) plus 'nasci' (to be born); used since the 1600s in English philosophy and science.
Your fear of heights might be connate—hardwired into your nervous system since birth as an evolutionary protection—which means you inherited not just DNA but specific survival programming from millions of years of careful ancestors!
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