in a way that is an extremely important and basic characteristic of a person or thing: The college and the community are intrinsically linked. There's something intrinsically wrong with taking advantage of children.

What are intrinsically linked?

A graph is intrinsically linked if any embedding of it in three dimensions contains a nontrivial link. A graph is intrinsically linked iff it contains one of the seven Petersen graphs (Robertson et al. 1993).

What does the term intrinsically mean?

: in an intrinsic manner : by natural character : in itself an intrinsically difficult language intrinsically evil/valuable The media do not have to go along with the pretense that there is something intrinsically virtuous about a movement with no leaders.—