autodidactically

adv

Etymology: From autodidactic + -ally.

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.”