Wiktionary
adv. In a manner that is typical or characteristic of a thing's nature.
Usage examples of "quintessentially".
His hands rubbed their backs: softly muscular, quintessentially female.
The supernatural vampire as presented in contemporary fiction, rather than representing a male adolescent sexual fantasy as Twitchell maintains, might more accurately be characterized as a quintessentially female fantasy.
This quintessentially Jazz Age novel simultaneously encapsulates and transcends its era.
Dominica Nosette, whose name, face, and body seemed quintessentially French, yet who was as staidly British as kippers and jellied eels, was chattering away with her partner Guy Pendergast.
American culture is entirely premised on "powers of the false," as Deleuze terms it in discussing the quintessentially American con men and forgers who populate the films of Orson Welles.