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autodidactically

autodidactically adverb: by teaching oneself.

Adverb

autodidactically (not comparable)

  1. By teaching oneself.
    • He didn't take an academic course, but picked up the subject autodidactically.
    • More than Spohr did Paganini draw the young autodidactically educated artist after him, and for this reason the latter went from Cassel to Paris to hear the famous Italian and to make some of his artifices his own.1894, “Celebrated Violinists Past and Present”, in The Strad, volume 6, page 203

Origin of autodidactically

From autodidactic + -ally.

Questions about autodidactically

What does autodidactically mean?
Autodidactically means by teaching oneself.
What part of speech is autodidactically?
Autodidactically is an adverb.

Words near autodidactically in the dictionary

  1. autodiallers
  2. autodialling
  3. autodials
  4. autodidact
  5. autodidactic
  6. autodidactically
  7. autodidacticism
  8. autodidaction
  9. autodidactism
  10. autodidacts
  11. autodiegetic

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