いかにも

いかにも · ikanimo · JLPT N1 · adverb

truly (same as 実に (じつに))

Etymology: 如何 (ika, how) + にも (indeed, even), so 'how indeed' came to mean truly

いかにも is a near-synonym of 実に. Its roots are 如何 (how) and にも, so the sense is 'in every way, indeed'. Use it to stress that something is genuinely so.

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