About The Word Extrinsic
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Extrinsic
Extrinsic Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Extrinsic?
[adj] not forming an essential part of a thing or arising or originating from the outside; "extrinsic evidence"; "an extrinsic feature of the new building"; "that style is something extrinsic to the subject"; "looking for extrinsic aid"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Extrinsic: accidental | adscititious | adventitious | alien | external | extraneous | foreign | outside Related Terms | Find terms related to Extrinsic: acquired | adrift | alien | apparent | barbarian | barbaric | barbarous | beside the mark | beside the point | beside the question | conventionalized | cortical | epidermic | exomorphic | exotic | exterior | external | extraneous | extraorganismal | extraterrestrial | foreign | foreign-born | formal | formalist | formalistic | formulary | fringe | immaterial | impersonal | impertinent | inadmissible | inapplicable | inapposite | inappropriate | incidental | inconsequent | intrusive | irrelative | irrelevant | legalistic | nihil ad rem | nominal | nonessential | nonsubjective | not at issue | objective | off the subject | open | out | outer | outermost | outland | outlandish | outlying | outmost | out-of-the-way | outside | outstanding | outward | outward-facing | parenthetical | pedantic | peripheral | public | roundabout | seeming | strange | stylized | superficial | surface | ulterior | unearthly | unessential | unrelated See Also | inessential | unessential Extrinsic In Webster's Dictionary \Ex*trin"sic\, a. [L. extrinsecus; exter on the
outside + secus otherwise, beside; akin to E. second: cf. F.
extrins[`e]que. See {Exterior}, {Second}.]
1. Not contained in or belonging to a body; external;
outward; unessential; -- opposed to intrinsic.
The extrinsic aids of education and of artificial
culture. --I. Taylor.
2. (Anat.) Attached partly to an organ or limb and partly to
some other part? -- said of certain groups of muscles.
Opposed to intrinsic.
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