per se

• POS: Adverb

OXFORD DICTIONARY

per se, adv. by or in itself; intrinsically.

Etymology

L

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, substantially

ROGET 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.