Intrinsically means by its own essential nature. Intrinsically valuable.
It is set against extrinsically, which means because of something outside. Something intrinsically interesting holds attention without any reward attached.
1adverbintrinsicallyBy its own essential nature.
“The work was intrinsically satisfying and paid almost nothing.”
intrinsically is a manner.
Proto-Indo-European
*sekʷ-
Latin
intrīnsecus — on the inside, inwardly
Middle French
intrinsèque
English
intrinsic
English, today
intrinsically
Built from
From intrinsic + -ally. intrinsic comes from Middle French intrinsèque, from Latin intrīnsecus (“on the inside, inwardly”), from intrim, an assumed adverbial form of inter (“within”) + secus (“by, on the side”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA