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per se
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adverbial per se has 1 sense
- per se(r = adv.all) as such, in and of itself, intrinsically - with respect to its inherent nature; "this statement is interesting per se"
THESAURUS
per se
alone, apart, at bottom, at heart, at the core, au fond, basically, by itself, essentially, fundamentally, in essence, in itself, in substance, in the main, in the singular, independently, individually, intrinsically, materially, once, one by one, particularly, primarily, separately, severally, single-handedly, singly, singularly, solely, substantiallyROGET THESAURUS
per se
Unity
N unity, oneness, individuality, solitude, isolation, unification, one, unit, ace, individual, none else, no other, one, sole, single, solitary, unitary, individual, apart, alone, kithless, unaccompanied, unattended, solus, single-handed, singular, odd, unique, unrepeated, azygous, first and last, isolated, insular, monospermous, unific, uniflorous, unifoliate, unigenital, uniliteral, unijocular, unimodal, unimodular, lone, lonely, lonesome, desolate, dreary, insecable, inseverable, indiscerptible, compact, indivisible, atomic, irresolvable, singly, alone, by itself, per se, only, apart, in the singular number, in the abstract, one by one, one at a time, simply, one and a half, sesqui-, natura il fece, e poi roppe la stampa, du fort au faible, two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.
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