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English
Etymology
From intrinsic + -ally.
Pronunciation
Adverb
intrinsically (comparative more intrinsically, superlative most intrinsically)
- In an intrinsic manner; internally; essentially.
1918, W B 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:What cannot be commoditized because it is intrinsically inaccessible to commodification?
Synonyms
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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: eredendően (hu), természeténél fogva, önmagában
- 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)
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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.