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essentially 
1  adv You use essentially to emphasize a quality that someone or something has, and to say that it is their most important or basic quality. 
FORMAL, emphasis 
(=fundamentally) 

It's been believed for centuries that great writers, composers and scientists are essentially quite different from ordinary people...  
2  adv You use essentially to indicate that what you are saying is mainly true, although some parts of it are wrong or more complicated than has been stated. 
FORMAL, vagueness His analysis of urban use of agricultural land has been proved essentially correct...