Intrinsically
adv ·5 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 In an intrinsic manner; internally; essentially.
"The preposterous altruism too![…]Resist not evil. It is an insane immolation of self—as bad intrinsically as fakirs stabbing themselves or anchorites warping their spines in caves scarcely large enough for a fair-sized dog."
- 2 Necessarily
"Like in the case of living languages, the classification of substrate elements as belonging to a certain language family shmould ideally be based on morphological as well as lexical evidence. The difference with living languages is however that the available material for substrate languages is scarcer, especially in the morphological domain, and intrinsically transmitted indirectly through the language that replaced it."
- 1 with respect to its inherent nature wordnet
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More examples"Such employments as warfare, politics, public worship, and public merrymaking, are felt, in the popular apprehension, to differ intrinsically from the labour that has to do with elaborating the material means of life."
Etymology
From intrinsic + -ally.
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