intrinsically

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From intrinsic +‎ -ally.

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intrinsically (comparative more intrinsically, superlative most intrinsically)

  1. In an intrinsic manner; internally; essentially.
    • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] 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[1]:
      What cannot be commoditized because it is intrinsically inaccessible to commodification?

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