intrinsically

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?

2. Necessarily
   • 2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 39:

     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.

   • 2025 April 5, @chow_global, X‎^[2]:

     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

• See also Thesaurus:intrinsically

• intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cell

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “intrinsically”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “intrinsically”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.