quintessentially

/ˌkwɪntɪˈsɛnʃəli/

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.50 in modern English

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"The program's most quintessentially Macintoshian feature, one as yet unique among spreadsheets, is its icon bar, which resides at the top of the screen just below the standard menu bar."
"Peri handed Ptolemy his helmet. It had a crest on it, which she always thought looked quintessentially Roman."

Etymology tree English quintessential Middle English -ly English -ly English quintessentially From quintessential + -ly.

quintessence quintessential

typically

essentially potentially exponentially sequentially preferentially confidentially tangentially presidentially

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How do you pronounce quintessentially?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˌkwɪntɪˈsɛnʃəli/.

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Where does quintessentially come from?

Etymology tree English quintessential Middle English -ly English -ly English quintessentially From quintessential + -ly.

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