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Adjective

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective intrinsic has 2 senses

intrinsic(a = adj.all) intrinsical - belonging to a thing by its very nature; "form was treated as something intrinsic, as the very essence of the thing"

Antonym: extrinsic

intrinsic(s = adj.all) - situated within or belonging solely to the organ or body part on which it acts; "intrinsic muscles"

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CIDE DICTIONARY

intrinsic, a. [L. intrinsecus inward, on the inside; intra within + secus otherwise, beside; akin to E. second: cf. F. intrinsèque. See Inter-, Second, and cf. Extrinsic.].

Inward; internal; hence, true; genuine; real; essential; inherent; not merely apparent or accidental; -- opposed to extrinsic; as, the intrinsic value of gold or silver; the intrinsic merit of an action; the intrinsic worth or goodness of a person. [1913 Webster]
"He was better qualified than they to estimate justly the intrinsic value of Grecian philosophy and refinement." [1913 Webster]
Included wholly within an organ or limb, as certain groups of muscles; -- opposed to extrinsic. [1913 Webster]

Intrinsic energy of a body (Physics), the work it can do in virtue of its actual condition, without any supply of energy from without. -- Intrinsic equation of a curve (Geom.), the equation which expresses the relation which the length of a curve, measured from a given point of it, to a movable point, has to the angle which the tangent to the curve at the movable point makes with a fixed line. -- Intrinsic value. See the Note under Value, n.

Syn. -- Inherent; innate; natural; real; genuine.

intrinsic, n.

A genuine quality. Warburton. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

intrinsic, adj. inherent, essential; belonging naturally (intrinsic value).

Derivative

intrinsically adv.

Etymology

ME, = interior, f. F intrins{egrave}que f. LL intrinsecus f. L intrinsecus (adv.) inwardly

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THESAURUS

intrinsic

actual, appropriate, basic, central, characteristic, congenital, connate, constitutional, deep, deep-seated, distinctive, distinguished, elemental, esoteric, essential, fundamental, genuine, hereditary, idiocratic, idiosyncratic, immanent, implanted, implicit, in character, inalienable, inborn, inbred, indoor, indwelling, infixed, ingrained, inherent, inherited, inmost, innate, inner, innermost, inside, interior, internal, intestine, intimate, inward, inwrought, irreducible, marked, native, natural, organic, peculiar, private, proper, quintessential, real, resident, secret, single, singular, subjective, true, true to form, unalienable, unchallengeable, underlying, unique, unquestionable

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Intrinsicality

N intrinsicality, inbeing, inherence, inhesion, subjectiveness, ego, egohood, essence, noumenon, essentialness, essential part, quintessence, incarnation, quiddity, gist, pith, marrow, core, sap, lifeblood, backbone, heart, soul, important part, principle, nature, constitution, character, type, quality, crasis, diathesis, habit, temper, temperament, spirit, humor, grain, disposition, endowment, capacity, capability, moods, declensions, features, aspects, peculiarities, idiosyncrasy, oddity, idiocrasy, diagnostics, derived from within, subjective, intrinsic, intrinsical, fundamental, normal, implanted, inherent, essential, natural, innate, inborn, inbred, ingrained, inwrought, coeval with birth, genetous, haematobious, syngenic, radical, incarnate, thoroughbred, hereditary, inherited, immanent, congenital, congenite, connate, running in the blood, ingenerate, ingenite, indigenous, in the grain, bred in the bone, instinctive, inward, internal, to the manner born, virtual, characteristic, invariable, incurable, incorrigible, ineradicable, fixed, intrinsically, at bottom, in the main, in effect, practically, virtually, substantially, au fond, fairly, character is higher than intellect, come give us a taste of your quality, magnos homines virtute metimur non fortuna, non numero haec judicantur sed pondere, vital spark of heavenly flame.

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