extrinsic
Adjective
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Not forming an essential part of a thing or arising or originating from the outside (synset 301351889)
"extrinsic evidence"; "an extrinsic feature of the new building"; "that style is something extrinsic to the subject"; "looking for extrinsic aid"also: inessential, unessential - not basic or fundamentalsimilar to:
- adventitious - associated by chance and not an integral part
- adscititious - added or derived from something outside; not inherent
- alien, foreign - not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something
- external, extraneous, outside - coming from the outside
- extraneous - not essential
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