Contextualizebeta

quintessentially

adv
/ˌkwɪntɪˈsɛnʃəli/

Etymology

From quintessential + -ly.

  1. derived from quinta essentia — “fifth essence, aether”
  2. suffixed as quintessential — “quintessence + al”
  3. formed as quintessentially — “quintessential + -ly”

Definitions

  1. In a manner that is typical or characteristic of a thing's nature.

    • The program's most quintessentially Macintoshian feature, one as yet unique among spreadsheets, is its icon bar, which resides at the top of the screen just below the standard menu bar.
    • Peri handed Ptolemy his helmet. It had a crest on it, which she always thought looked quintessentially Roman.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for quintessentially. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA