intrinsic

intrinsic
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(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
Innate quality
Nouns
1. intrinsicality, inbeing, inherence, inhesion; subjectiveness; ego; essence, essentialness, essentiality, essential part, quintessence, incarnation; quiddity, gist, pith, core; marrow, sap, lifeblood, backbone, heart, soul; important part (see importance); principle. See part.
2. nature, constitution, character, quality, property, crasis, diathesis, the nature of the beast; ring [of truth, etc. ]. See identity.
3. habit, temper, temperament; spirit, humor, grain; moods, features, aspects; peculiarities (see speciality); idiosyncrasy; idiocrasy (see tendency); diagnostics; endowment, capacity; capability (see power).
Verbs — inhere, be or run in the blood, be born to.
Adjectives — intrinsic[al]; subjective; fundamental, normal; implanted, inherent, essential, elementary, basic, natural; innate, inborn, inbred, ingrained, inwrought; radical; incarnate; thoroughbred, hereditary, inherited, immanent; congenital, connate, running in the blood; ingenerate, indigenous; in the grain, bred in the bone, instinctive; inward, internal, interior; to the manner born; virtual; characteristic; invariable, incurable, ineradicable, fixed, etc.
Adverbs — intrinsically, at bottom, in the main, in effect, practically, virtually, substantially, fairly. Slang, like stink on shit.
Quotations — All progress is based upon a universal innate desire of every organism to live beyond its means (Samuel Butler).
Antonyms, see extrinsic.
II
(Roget's IV) modif.
Syn. essential, central, natural; see fundamental 1 , inherent .
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) (VOCABULARY WORD) a.
[in TRIN sik]
naturally or inherently belonging.
His success was partially due to an intrinsic aggressiveness.
SYN.: inherent, natural, essential, innate, internal, inbred, native, inherited, built-in, basic, fundamental, constitutional.
ANT.: extrinsic, external, outer
IV
(Roget's Thesaurus II) adjective Forming an essential element, as arising from the basic structure of an individual: built-in, congenital, connatural, constitutional, elemental, inborn, inbred, indigenous, indwelling, ingrained, inherent, innate, native, natural. See BE, NATIVE, START.

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  • Intrinsic — In*trin sic ([i^]n*tr[i^]n s[i^]k), a. [L. intrinsecus inward, on the inside; intra within + secus otherwise, beside; akin to E. second: cf. F. intrins[ e]que. See {Inter }, {Second}, and cf. {Extrinsic}.] [1913 Webster] 1. Inward; internal;… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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