intrinsicality

Roget category 5

1. Words expressing abstract relations
› 1.1. Existence
›› 1.1.3. Formal existence

#5. Intrinsicality

noun

intrinsicality^†, inbeing^†, inherence, inhesion^† — subjectiveness — ego — egohood^† — essence, noumenon — essentialness^† etc. adj. — essential part, quintessence, incarnation, quiddity, gist, pith, marrow, core, sap, lifeblood, backbone, heart, soul — important part etc. (importance) 642.
principle, nature, constitution, character, type, quality, crasis^†, diathesis^†.
habit — temper, temperament — spirit, humor, grain — disposition.
endowment, capacity — capability etc. (power) 157.
moods, declensions, features, aspects — peculiarities etc. (speciality) 79 — idiosyncrasy, oddity — idiocrasy etc. (tendency) 176 — diagnostics.

verb

be in the blood, run in the blood — be born so — be intrinsic etc. adj..

adjective

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.

adverb

intrinsically etc. adj. — at bottom, in the main, in effect, practically, virtually, substantially, au fond — fairly.

phrase

character is higher than intellect" [Emerson]; come give us a taste of your quality" [Hamlet]; magnos homines virtute metimur non fortuna [Lat.] [Nepos]; non numero haec judicantur sed pondere [Lat.] [Cicero]; vital spark of heavenly flame" [Pope].

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