Intrinsically
[ɪn'trɪnsɪkəlɪ] or [ɪn'trɪnsɪkli]
Definition
(adv.) with respect to its inherent nature; 'this statement is interesting per se'.
Checker: Rudolph--From WordNet
Definition
(adv.) Internally; in its nature; essentially; really; truly.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
ad. [1]. Naturally, inherently, in the nature of things.[2]. Really, truly, essentially.
Edited by Adela
Examples
- The reactions were all varied in various people, but they followed a few great laws, and intrinsically there was no difference. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The course of action is not intrinsically satisfying; it is a mere means for avoiding some penalty, or for gaining some reward at its conclusion. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The mind wanders from the nominal subject and devotes itself to what is intrinsically more desirable. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- As such, they are not only intrinsically and directly enjoyable, but they serve a purpose beyond themselves. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Moreover, the qualities of mind discussed under the topic of method of learning are all of them intrinsically moral qualities. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- More than you think it really and intrinsically worth. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Even in those early days he arrived at the conclusion that the lead-sulphuric-acid combination was intrinsically wrong, and did not embrace the elements of a permanent commercial device. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Everything was intrinsically a piece of irony to her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- On the one hand, it denotes the attitude of prizing a thing finding it worth while, for its own sake, or intrinsically. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It seems to me to have only one drawback, Hopkins, and that is that it is intrinsically impossible. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- One man isn't any better than another, not because they are equal, but because they are intrinsically OTHER, that there is no term of comparison. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Let them have the consistency and good sense to cease bothering about men if men's desires seem intrinsically evil. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Nobody ever had a bigger scrap-heap than Edison; but who dare proclaim the process intrinsically wasteful if the losses occur in the initial stages, and the economies in all the later ones? Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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