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   inherent

   /ɪnˈhɛrənt/

   adjective

   • 1. existing in something as a permanent, essential, or characteristic attribute: "any form of mountaineering has its inherent dangers"
   • ▪ vested in someone as a right or privilege: "the president's inherent foreign affairs power"
   • ▪ (of an adjective) having the same meaning in both attributive and predicative uses.

   Word Origin late 16th century: from Latin inhaerent- ‘sticking to’, from the verb inhaerere, from in- ‘in, towards’ + haerere ‘to stick’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. inherence noun

   Scrabble Points: 11

   • I

     1

   • N

     1

   • H

     4

   • E

     1

   • R

     1

   • E

     1

   • N

     1

   • T

     1

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