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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
inherent
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an inherent/innate tendency (=one that you are born with, which will not change)
▪ When attacked, some people have an inherent tendency to fight back.
inherent limitationsformal (= limitations that are a natural part of something)
▪ We recognize the inherent limitations of our research.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
conflict
▪ Yet the nature of many negotiating situations is inherent conflict, it is why bargaining has become necessary.
▪ There is no inherent conflict between self-actualization and effective organizational performance.
▪ The inherent conflicts embodied in their creation has subsequently led to their demise in many countries.
▪ I do not believe that there needs to be any inherent conflict between those aims.
contradiction
▪ International events have shown that there is an inherent contradiction between a one-party state and mass democracy.
▪ But the neo-communists no longer believe there is an inherent contradiction between political authoritarianism and a more free-wheeling economy, he said.
▪ Their abstract certitudes seemed far removed to him from the inherent contradictions in human nature.
▪ He argued that the international monetary system, based largely on the dollar, contained certain inherent contradictions.
danger
▪ The inherent danger is that the other Sixers stand around and watch Iverson, leading to little or no balance.
difficulty
▪ Though some pointed out the inherent difficulties in doing this, several respondents made constructive suggestions for possible approaches.
▪ There is an inherent difficulty in that often the main dividend from a task analysis is from the act of obtaining it.
▪ We have discussed the inherent difficulty of Southern blotting above.
instability
▪ Its inherent instability of organization was evident long before it collapsed.
▪ Gordon's analysis calls for a longer term perspective and points to the inherent instability of world capitalism today.
limitation
▪ We recognise the inherent limitations of our study.
▪ The camera lens, of course, has its own inherent limitations.
▪ Nevertheless, while many administrative shortcomings have been identified, the scrutiny technique does have inherent limitations.
power
▪ We do not believe that there is an inherent power in this court to make such an order.
problem
▪ They have, like all systems, inherent problems but the concept is far more flexible in translating to a practical solution.
▪ But there are a couple of inherent problems with cable.
▪ It was realized very early on that interactions involving isotropic stellar winds had serious inherent problems involving energy.
▪ There is an inherent problem in citing specific examples of such questions, however.
▪ Some inherent problems remain in a concept premised on the desirability of normality, in whatever sense it is interpreted.
right
▪ A treaty regime affording third party rights can not outweigh a State's inherent right to self-defence.
risk
▪ All single-engine, high performance, military aircraft fly with a degree of inherent risk.
▪ Their plan, they argue, would not have the inherent risks of the more radical privatization plans.
▪ Nothing I have experienced illustrates this quite like church planting because of the inherent risk of failure.
▪ Every business has its own inherent risks, no matter how good the managers are.
▪ There is always an inherent risk in doing this.
▪ If the injury sustained was an inherent risk of the procedure, then the doctrine will be inapplicable.
tendency
▪ This inherent tendency towards corporatism seems less inevitable in the late 1980s but we will return to it below.
▪ The best he could do was to attribute to his elements certain inherent tendencies.
▪ Although he relies on assumptions about human nature, he seeks to treat its inherent tendencies scientifically.
uncertainty
▪ But perhaps it reveals more of the inherent uncertainty of experimental research than the tidiness which precedes it.
▪ Both EDs would require auditors to refer in their reports to inherent uncertainties affecting the accounts.
▪ However, the proposals for added emphasis paragraphs in respect of disclosures about inherent uncertainties have a number of drawbacks.
value
▪ They had no inherent value beyond their purpose in assisting to select the most appropriate law.
▪ It is for this reason that this Court has recognized the inherent value of free discourse.
weakness
▪ One of the inherent weaknesses of the modern squad system is that a close-knit clique becomes impervious to failure and criticism.
▪ The military had placed the island city in the best possible defense posture, considering the inherent weakness of its geographic position.
▪ These are inherent weaknesses that are best exploited only indirectly, lest criticism backfire.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Dance is also an inherent part of the culture.
▪ Money is unfortunately an inherent part of politics.
▪ Surgical procedures have many risks inherent in them.
▪ the uncertainties that are inherent in the research and development process
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inherent

Inherent \In*her"ent\, a. [L. inhaerens, -entis, p. pr. of inhaerere: cf. F. inh['e]rent. See Inhere.] Permanently existing in something; inseparably attached or connected; naturally pertaining to; innate; inalienable; as, polarity is an inherent quality of the magnet; the inherent right of men to life, liberty, and protection. ``A most inherent baseness.''
--Shak.

The sore disease which seems inherent in civilization.
--Southey.

Syn: Innate; inborn; native; natural; inbred; inwrought; inseparable; essential; indispensable.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
inherent

1570s, from Latin inhaerentem (nominative inhaerens), present participle of inhaerere "be closely connected with," literally "adhere to," from in- "in" (see in- (2)) + haerere "to stick" (see hesitation). Related: Inherently.

Wiktionary
inherent

a. naturally as part or consequence of something.

WordNet
inherent
  1. adj. existing as an essential constituent or characteristic; "the Ptolemaic system with its built-in concept of periodicity"; "a constitutional inability to tell the truth" [syn: built-in, constitutional, inbuilt, integral]

  2. present at birth but not necessarily hereditary; acquired during fetal development [syn: congenital, inborn, innate]

  3. in the nature of something though not readily apparent; "shortcomings inherent in our approach"; "an underlying meaning" [syn: implicit in(p), underlying]

Wikipedia
INHERENT

The Indonesia Higher Education Network is an inter- university educational network in Indonesia. For the first phase of development, the network consists of 32 universities. The main ring of this network is located on the island of Java, five universities as a backbone network connected using STM-1 line with a total 155 Mbit/s of bandwidth capacity. Those universities are the University of Indonesia, the Bandung Institute of Technology, the Institute Technology Sepuluh November, Gadjah Mada University and the Diponegoro University.

Usage examples of "inherent".

Nothing had prepared her for parenthood by herself, and even more tragic, nothing had prepared her for the abusive relationship inherent in being married to an alcoholic.

Eliza accepts this possibility with the inherent grace of the acutely underconfident, decides not to mention it until he does.

Again and again, in adjudicating the rights and duties of States admitted after 1789, the Supreme Court has referred to the condition of equality as if it were an inherent attribute of the Federal Union.

Our opponents after first admitting the unity go on to make our soul dependent on something else, something in which we have no longer the soul of this or that, even of the universe, but a soul of nowhere, a soul belonging neither to the kosmos, nor to anything else, and yet vested with all the function inherent to the kosmic soul and to that of every ensouled thing.

Confucius, arguing that he prevented thought, which was inherent in everyone.

If motion were equally inherent in its constitution, we should include this as well, and the four would form a unity, the single body depending upon them all for its unity and characteristic nature.

In determining what it may do in seeking assistance from another branch, the extent and character of that assistance must be fixed according to common sense and the inherent necessities of the governmental co-ordination.

From this single premise, he develops an almost mathematical calculus that seeks to explain all human behavior as the deterministic result of patterns of positive and negative reinforcement inherent in the physical and social environment.

Life, Light, Soul, from the inherent Light of the Emanative principle, 755-l.

Descended from the Indo-European stock, and preserved from total enervation by their mountain air, the inhabitants have, even under Islam, retained much of the vivacity, fire, and poetry inherent in the Aryan nature.

It is undisputed, however, that the influence of Thine attraction hath everlastingly been inherent in the realities of Thy handiwork, although that which beseemeth the hallowed court of Thy providence is exalted beyond the attainment of the entire creation.

His black velvet doublet, his knee-length breeches, his high, supple boots, harked just enough to a later period to avoid the inherent ridiculousness of male Elizabethan garb without appearing anachronistic, and his hueless hair seemed warmer in the torchlight, darkened almost to honey.

By things of determined condition I mean such as contain, inbound with their essence, the reason of their being as they are, so that, later, an observer can state the use for each of the constituent parts--why the eye, why feet of such and such a kind to such and such a being--and can recognise that the reason for the production of each organ is inherent in that particular being and that the parts exist for each other.

Even the curls could not conceal the inherent masculinity of Jarg and Taamuz.

Motivated by the inherent caution and suspicion of the wild beast, Tarzan moved silently through the trees which encircled the kampong, to assure himself that no enemy lurked there.