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intrinsically

Adverb

Meaning

Internally; in its nature; essentially; really; truly.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Nuclear weapons are intrinsically neither moral nor immoral, though they are more prone to immoral use than most weapons. Herman Kahn

It must be said that today, at the end of its semantic evolution, the word 'terrorist' is an intrinsically propagandistic term. It has no neutral readability. It dispenses with all reasoned examination of political situations, of their causes and consequences. Alain Badiou

The realm of quanta is how I have intrinsically approached and viewed reality since I was born. Vanna Bonta

Why is anything intrinsically so valueless so obviously desirable? John Kenneth Galbraith

The grand design of nature perceived broadly in four dimensions, including the forces that move the universe and created man, with special focus on evolution in our own biosphere, is something intrinsically good that it is right to preserve and enhance, and wrong to destroy and degrade. Roger Wolcott Sperry

Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions. It seems almost as if progress itself and our fight against the increase of entropy intrinsically must end in the downhill path from which we are trying to escape. Norbert Wiener

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