INHERENTLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inherently mean? 

• INHERENTLY (adverb)
  The adverb INHERENTLY has 1 sense:

1. in an inherent manner

  Familiarity information: INHERENTLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INHERENTLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In an inherent manner

Context example:

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

Pertainym:

inherent (existing as an essential constituent or characteristic)

 Context examples 

You are a mutable sign, which means you are inherently flexible, so you, more than most, will be able to adjust and decide the next steps quickly.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The findings offer the best proof yet that star explosions of this type, called Type II or core-collapse supernovae, are inherently asymmetrical, a phenomenon that had been difficult to prove before now.

(Star Explosion is Lopsided, NASA)

I take the spectrum and I, essentially, mathematically resample that to a musical scale and that gives that spectrum, which is inherently atonal, it gives it the tonality.

(Does Our Galaxy Sound Like Funky Blues Music?, George Putic/VOA)

This familiar that I called out of my own soul, and sent forth alone to do his good pleasure, was a being inherently malign and villainous; his every act and thought centered on self; drinking pleasure with bestial avidity from any degree of torture to another; relentless like a man of stone.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)