hierarchically

adv

Etymology: Etymology tree English hierarchical Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English hierarchically From hierarchical + -ly.

1. Of, relating to, or arranged in a hierarchy.

   “Unlike, say, botany or zoology, or even in a thesaural structure of a knowledge database, where the syntactical and semantic relationships between concepts is often highly ordered (e.g. hierarchically, cohyponymically), the central concepts and meanings in the field of management are more consensually negotiated.”

2. Pertaining to a transitive relation between objects by which they may be ordered into a hierarchy.