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primordially

primordially

8.4
From the very beginning
  • adverb
  • /praɪˈmɔrdɪəli/
translation icon : primordialmente
  • While the feminine silently calls on us to invest in our subjectivity, it itself hides or slips away; it never asks for compensation or thanks; it simply, primordially, and unceasingly gives.

Truth for Heidegger is fundamentally or primordially alethea.

Examples

  • On the contrary, identity is something primordially elicited, its origin residing in demands, problems, and imperatives beckoning from outside the subject, calling us into diverse modalities of being.

    Academic text (2010)
  • Tohu vabohu must simply be excluded as evil; it cannot be reinterpreted in a confession of sin as the corruption of the good, as a primordially good chaos.

    Academic text (2017)
  • Truth for Heidegger is fundamentally or primordially alethea.

  • Unique among creatures in our awareness of death, we human beings are, for German existentialism, creatures primordially informed and oriented in the world by that awareness of our own end to come.

    Academic text (1993)
  • With such a trade in mind, we can revise the acculturative stereotype of irreversible dilution from some primordially pure state.

    Academic text (1993)
  • Thus, "what the spectre conceals is not reality but its 'primordially repressed', the irrepresentable X on whose 'repression' reality itself is founded" (21).

    Academic text (2018)
  • In fact, there existed a contradiction between what may be termed an "enthusiastic" millennialism resting on the particular infusion of grace to communicants and a more primordially based millennialism resting on inclusion in the English nation.

    Academic text (1991)
  • If philosophy is a normative discipline, moreover, it is primordially and concretely so. Modern philosophy is primordial, concrete, normative judgment. (Canguilhem 1994: 381-83)

    Academic text (2017)
  • The universe was primordially chaotic before stars and planets formed.

  • Life on Earth began primordially in the simplest forms of bacteria.

Synonyms

primitively
vsprimordially
1 6.7

In the earliest form of something before it changed

is broader stressing basic or lasting origin rather than just the start
primally
vsprimordially
7.9

In a way that comes from the first form or beginning

is similar but also stresses the very beginning in time

Antonyms

1.0

A short time before now

1.0

Happening after something else in time

How Original

primordially
8.4
originally
543 2.0

Surface Forms

primordially positive

Morphology

primordially = primordial (transparent) = primordial + ly

The adverb is a standard derivation from the adjective 'primordial' using the productive suffix '-ly', so the meaning is directly predictable.

Etymology

The word primordially comes from Latin parts meaning 'first' and 'beginning', and it shares the same root as prime and primary, so it describes something that is true 'from the very beginning'.