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The property of being baked in, not bolted on — no refund, no removal.
means The state of a quality or property existing as an intrinsic, permanent part of something, rather than being attached or added from outside.
from From Latin inhaerere — 'in' (in) plus haerere (to stick, cling). Haerere is the same root behind 'adhere' and 'cohere,' so inherence shares a family with every word about things clinging fast; the Latin verb was even used of things stuck fast in mud or battle, something that won't pull free.
- philosophy roots
- Aristotle used it to explain how qualities live in substances
- not possession
- you own a car, but inhere a soul
- legal cousin
- inherent risk means the danger cannot be contracted away
- opposite
- accident, the trait that could vanish and you'd stay you