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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
intrinsic /ɪnˈtrɪnsɪk/
▶adjective (often intrinsic to) belonging naturally; essential.
– derivatives
intrinsically adverb.
intrinsically adverb.
– origin C15 (in the sense ‘interior, inner’): from Fr. intrinsèque, from late L. intrinsecus, from the earlier adv. intrinsecus ‘inwardly, inwards’.
'intrinsic' also found in these Oxford entries:
essence
- Gresham's law
- locution
- luminosity
- merit
- quintessence
- spin
- sunyata
- ur-
- wedge
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