autodidactically

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English

Etymology

From autodidactic +‎ -ally.

Adverb

autodidactically (not comparable)

  1. By teaching oneself.
    He didn't take an academic course, but picked up the subject autodidactically.
    • 1894, “Celebrated Violinists Past and Present”, in The Strad, volume 6, page 203:
      More than Spohr did Paganini draw the young autodidactically educated artist after him, and for this reason the latter went from Cassel to Paris to hear the famous Italian and to make some of his artifices his own.
    • 1992, Jo-Ann Gross, Muslims in Central Asia: Expressions of Identity and Change, page 123:
      Zaynullah enjoyed a general reputation for "foreign knowledge," presumably acquired autodidactically from the manuals of scientific popularization that were beginning to proliferate in Kazan Turkic.

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