intrinsically

English

Etymology

intrinsic +‎ -ally

Pronunciation

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Adverb

intrinsically (comparative more intrinsically, superlative most intrinsically)

1. In an intrinsic manner; internally; essentially.
   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVI, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     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.

   • 2021 September 25, Charles Hugh Smith, Are We Really So "Rich"? A New Way of Defining Wealth‎^[1]:

     What cannot be commoditized because it is intrinsically inaccessible to commodification?

Synonyms

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Derived terms

• intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cell

Translations

in an intrinsic manner, internally, essentially

• Catalan: intrínsecament
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 本质上地, 内在地 (nèizàidi), 本質上／本质上 (zh)

• Czech: vnitřně, skutečně (cs)
• Dutch: intrinsiek (nl), wezenlijk (nl), innerlijk (nl)
• Finnish: olennaisesti (fi), luonnollisesti (fi), itsessään
• French: intrinsèquement (fr)
• Galician: intrinsecamente
• Georgian: შინაგანად (šinaganad)
• German: wirklich (de), wesentlich (de), eigentlich (de)
• Hungarian: lényegében (hu), valósággal (hu)
• Italian: intrinsecamente (it)
• Japanese: 本来 (ja) (honrai), 元来 (ja) (ganrai), 元々 (ja) (motomoto)
• Korean: 본질적으로 (bonjiljeogeuro)
• Polish: wewnętrznie (pl), zasadniczo (pl), nieodłącznie (pl)
• Portuguese: intrinsecamente
• Romanian: intrinsec (ro)
• Russian: по су́ти (ru) (po súti), по существу́ (po suščestvú), в су́щности (v súščnosti), вну́тренне (ru) (vnútrenne)
• Spanish: intrínsecamente (es)
• Turkish: doğası gereği
• Walloon: divintrinnmint (wa)

References

• “intrinsically”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “intrinsically”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.