Belonging to a thing by its very nature.

synonym: intrinsic.

Roget 5: 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 etc. n.; bred in the bone, instinctive; inward, internal etc. 221; to the manner born; virtual.    characteristic etc. (special) 79, (indicative) 550; invariable, incurable, incorrigible, ineradicable, fixed.    ... show more

Dutch: intrinsiek