adventitious

Adjective
  1. Associated by chance and not an integral part (synset 301352283)
    "poetry is something to which words are the accidental, not by any means the essential form"; "they had to decide whether his misconduct was adventitious or the result of a flaw in his character"
    similar to: extrinsic - not forming an essential part of a thing or arising or originating from the outside

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