the intrinsic interest of the subjectintrinsicin‧trin‧sic /ɪnˈtrɪnsɪk, -zɪk/ ●○○ AWL adjective 
the intrinsic interest of the subjectintrinsic nature/quality/value/property of something There is nothing in the intrinsic nature of the work that makes it more suitable for women.intrinsic to Flexibility is intrinsic to creative management.—intrinsically /-kli/ adverb: Science is seen as intrinsically good.
WORD ORIGINintrinsic
Origin:
1400-1500 French intrinsèque, from Late Latin intrinsecusEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Parents need to teach children the intrinsic value of good behavior.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY the intrinsic interest of the subject There is nothing in the intrinsic nature of the work that makes it more suitable for women.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
the intrinsic interest of the subject There is nothing in the intrinsic nature of the work that makes it more suitable for women.· Smoothly synchronised endocrine function, an intrinsic factor in determining youthfulness, is also notoriously liable to become unbalanced through stress.· Pernicious anemia is thought to be caused by an autoimmune reaction against gastric parietal cells resulting in impaired secretion of intrinsic factor.· This was also true when gastrin and intrinsic factor were incubated together with their respective antibodies.· However, it is also possible to consider situations in which the modifiability of a compartment is due to completely intrinsic factors.· Parietal cell and intrinsic factor blocking antibodies were not detected in any subject with atrophy.· We have shown, using immunohistochemistry, that intrinsic factor is present in parietal cells from 13 weeks of gestation.
· These tasks were repetitive, lengthy, and lacking in any intrinsic interest.· Apart from its intrinsic interest, this result will have applications in other chapters.· First, one begins to question the need for frequent rote regurgitation of words which lack intrinsic interest.· The attractions of Ullapool are not altogether in its intrinsic interests.· Nevertheless it was felt that the papers deserved a wider circulation because of their intrinsic interest to a larger audience.
· One general psychological theory of the intrinsic nature of indecent jokes is, however, of considerable relevance and practical value here.· Its badness, therefore, would not belong to its intrinsic nature and not be one of its intrinsic properties.· So its badness would follow necessarily from its intrinsic nature.
· This, of course, is an intrinsic part of their grand master-plan.· The electoral system appeared to form an intrinsic part of a stable polity.· Family relationships are more complicated and involve patterns which have become an intrinsic part of the relationship.
· The purport of that attack was to prove that generality could never be an intrinsic property of a mental content.· Replicators survive, not only by virtue of their own intrinsic properties, but by virtue of their consequences on the world.· But once again it is to deny that they can do this by virtue of their intrinsic properties as individuals.· But this apparent methodological superiority does not necessarily spring from any intrinsic properties of the stratificational model.· The particular effects that genes have are not intrinsic properties of those genes.· Its badness, therefore, would not belong to its intrinsic nature and not be one of its intrinsic properties.
· It does not necessarily describe any intrinsic quality of the market itself.
· By definition, all at-the-money and out-of-the-money options have intrinsic values of zero.· We are speaking about giving everyone access to some share in the intrinsic values that make human life worthwhile.· Liberalisation and democratisation were not so much of intrinsic value as of practical value for the reformist-minded leadership.· It is the specification of those basic intrinsic values that all rational beings would desire.· Antique jewellery at the Paris Biennale is of interest for its design rather than its intrinsic value.· It is in this sense that intrinsic values are objective.· As with treasure trove the finder is rewarded with the intrinsic value of the find.· They are capable of producing and enjoying states of intrinsic value, desirable for their own sakes alone.
· Paint all over their clothes, all over the studio, external mark of intrinsic worth.· But in this new conception of death people found a new conception of life, prized anew for its own intrinsic worth.
WORD FAMILYadjectiveintrinsicadverbintrinsically
being part of the nature or character of someone or something OPP extrinsic: the intrinsic interest of the subjectintrinsic nature/quality/value/property of something There is nothing in the intrinsic nature of the work that makes it more suitable for women.intrinsic to Flexibility is intrinsic to creative management.—intrinsically /-kli/ adverb: Science is seen as intrinsically good.