intrinsically

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:

     What cannot be commoditized because it is intrinsically inaccessible to commodification?

• See also Thesaurus:intrinsically

• intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cell

• “intrinsically”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “intrinsically”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.