intrinsically
/ˌɪntɹˈɪnsɪkəli/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.06 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In an intrinsic manner; internally; essentially.
adv
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "What cannot be commoditized because it is intrinsically inaccessible to commodification?"
- "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."
- "I think the kind of hi-lo, low tax / blue collar coalition PP is running this time, it intrinsically leads to inferior outcomes regardless of party policymakers intent"
Etymology
Etymology tree English intrinsic Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Middle English -ly Middle English -ally English -ally English intrinsically From intrinsic + -ally.
Inflected Forms
more intrinsically (comparative)
most intrinsically (superlative)