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Thesaurus > Abstract relations > Existence > Formal existence

5. Intrinsicality (internal conditions)

Nouns

  • intrinsicality [obs3], inbeing [obs3], inherence, inhesion [obs3]; subjectiveness; ego; egohood [obs3]; essence, noumenon; essentialness [obs3] etc. adj.; essential part, quintessence, incarnation, quiddity, gist, pith, marrow, core, sap, lifeblood, backbone, heart, soul; important part etc. (importance) S642.
  • principle, nature, constitution, character, type, quality, crasis [obs3], diathesis [obs3].
  • habit; temper, temperament; spirit, humor, grain; disposition.
  • endowment, capacity; capability etc. (power) S157.
  • moods, declensions, features, aspects; peculiarities etc. (speciality) S79; idiosyncrasy, oddity; idiocrasy etc. (tendency) S176[obs3]; diagnostics.

Verbs

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

Adjectives

  • derived from within, subjective; intrinsic, intrinsical [obs3]; fundamental, normal; implanted, inherent, essential, natural; innate, inborn, inbred, ingrained, inwrought; coeval with birth, genetous [obs3], haematobious [obs3], syngenic [obs3]; radical, incarnate, thoroughbred, hereditary, inherited, immanent; congenital, congenite|; connate, running in the blood; ingenerate [obs3], ingenite|; indigenous; in the grain etc. n.; bred in the bone, instinctive; inward, internal etc. S221; to the manner born; virtual.
  • characteristic etc. (special) S79, (indicative) S550; invariable, incurable, incorrigible, ineradicable, fixed.

Adverbs

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

Phrases

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