Definition of extrinsic Extrinsic
/ɛkstɹɪˈnsɪk/ - [ekstrinsik] - ex•trin•sic
We found 8 definitions of extrinsic from 5 different sources.
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What does extrinsic mean?
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| extrinsic - 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" | ||
| intrinsical, intrinsic situated within or belonging solely to the organ or body part on which it acts; "intrinsic muscles" | ||
| unessential, inessential not basic or fundamental | ||
| adventitious associated by chance and not an integral part; "poetry is something to which words are the accidental, not by any means the essential form"- Frederick W. Robertson; "they had to decide whether his misconduct was adventitious or the result of a flaw in his character" | ||
| adscititious supplemental; not part of the real or essential nature of a thing; "adscititious vowels" | ||
| alien, foreign being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world; "alien customs"; "exotic plants in a greenhouse"; "exotic cuisine" | ||
| external, extraneous, outside happening or arising or located outside or beyond some limits or especially surface; "the external auditory canal"; "external pressures" | ||
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- extrinsic (Adjective)
external, separable from the thing itself, inessential. - extrinsic (Adjective)
Not belonging to, outside of.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- extrinsic (a.)
Not contained in or belonging to a body; external; outward; unessential; -- opposed to intrinsic. - extrinsic (a.)
Attached partly to an organ or limb and partly to some other part/ -- said of certain groups of muscles. Opposed to intrinsic.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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extrinsic
External, separable from the thing itself, inessential. -
extrinsic
Not required.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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extrinsic
-al, eks-trin′sik, -al, adj. external: not contained in or belonging to a body: foreign: not essential—opp. to Intrinsic.—n. Extrinsical′ity.—adv. Extrin′sically. [Fr.,—L. extrinsecus—exter, outside, secus, beside.]
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