Internal conditions
#5. Intrinsicality.—N. intrinsicality[obs3], inbeing[obs3],
inherence, inhesion[obs3]; subjectiveness; ego; egohood[obs3]; essence,
noumenon; essentialness[obs3] &c. adj.; essential part, quintessence,
incarnation, quiddity, gist, pith, marrow, core, sap, lifeblood,
backbone, heart, soul; important part &c. (importance) 642. principle,
nature, constitution, character, type, quality, crasis[obs3],
diathesis[obs3]. habit; temper, temperament; spirit, humor, grain;
disposition. endowment, capacity; capability &c. (power) 157. moods,
declensions, features, aspects; peculiarities &c. (speciality) 79;
idiosyncrasy, oddity; idiocrasy &c. (tendency) 176[obs3]; diagnostics.
V. be in the blood, run in the blood; be born so; be intrinsic &c. adj.
Adj. 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 &c. n.; bred in the bone, instinctive; inward, internal
&c. 221; to the manner born; virtual. characteristic &c. (special) 79,
(indicative) 550; invariable, incurable, incorrigible, ineradicable,
fixed. Adv. intrinsically &c. adj.; at bottom, in the main, in effect,
practically, virtually, substantially, au fond; fairly. Phr. "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].
External conditions
#6. Extrinsicality.—N. extrinsicality[obs3], objectiveness, non ego;
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extraneousness &c. 57; accident; appearance, phenomenon &c. 448.
Adj. derived from without; objective; extrinsic,
extrinsical[obs3];
extraneous &c. (foreign) 57; modal, adventitious; ascititious[obs3],
adscititious[obs3]; incidental, accidental, nonessential; contingent,
fortuitous.
implanted, ingrafted[obs3]; inculcated, infused.
outward, apparent &c. (external) 220.
Adv. extrinsically &c. adj.