Is "case-sensitively" a word?

The word case-sensitively may be rare outside of technical sites, because the concept is little needed anywhere else. However, it's built out of normal, productive English morphological rules, so it's perfectly licit. I don't believe that there is any other terse alternative.


The term I've seen most often is "case sensitivity." Ergo:

  • "A colleague asked me about comparing values in a case-sensitive manner."

This leads naturally to:

  • "A colleague asked me about comparing case-sensitive values."

Trying to force the construction into an adverb leads to unhappy results.