inherently

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   in an inherent manner

   the subject matter is sexual activity of any overt kind, which is depicted as inherently desirable and exciting

2. 2
   adv

   In an inherent way; naturally, innately.

   Rights are inherently in all the inhabitants; but charters, by annulling those rights, in the majority, leave the right, by exclusion, in the hands of a few.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Proto-Italic *en- Latin in- Latin haereō Latin inhaereō Latin inhaerentembor. English inherent Proto-Indo-European *leyg- Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English inherently From inherent + -ly.