connatural

[kuh-nach-er-uhl, -nach-ruhl]

adjective

1. belonging to a person or thing by nature or from birth or origin; inborn.

2. of the same or a similar nature.

connatural

/ kəˈnætʃərəl /

adjective

1. having a similar nature or origin

2. congenital or innate; connate

Other Word Forms

• connaturally adverb
• connaturality noun
• connaturalness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of connatural¹

1585–95; < Medieval Latin connātūrālis, equivalent to Latin con- con- + nātūrālis natural

Example Sentences

The Body of our Blessed Lord exists in the Eucharist without its connatural external extension and consequent impenetrability.

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"No one knew better than Capek that the cultivation of the soil and cultivation of the spirit are connatural," Harrison writes.

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How connatural this strange, unreasoning, reckless courage was with their regenerate state is shown most signally in St. Paul, as having been a convert of later vocation.

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Thus the human mind has no criterion of truth within itself, no elements of knowledge which are connatural and inborn.

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"The Truths of God are connatural to the soul of man, and the soul of man makes no more resistance to them than the air does to light."

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