intrinsic vs primal

intrinsic

adj
  • Innate, inherent, inseparable from the thing itself, essential. 

  • Built-in. 

  • Situated, produced, secreted in, or coming from inside an organ, tissue, muscle or member. 

noun
  • A built-in function that is implemented directly by the compiler, without any intermediate call to a library. 

  • An ability possessed by a character and not requiring any external equipment. 

primal

adj
  • Of greatest importance; primary. 

  • Being the first in time or in history. 

  • Being one of the pieces of meat initially separated from the carcass during butchering, prior to division into smaller cuts. 

noun
  • A primal cut (of meat). 

verb
  • To take part in primal therapy. 

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