extrinsic

extrinsic
I
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
Separate
Nouns
1. extrinsicality, outwardness, extraneousness, foreignness, objectivity. See exterior, auxiliary, circumstance.
2. (extrinsic object or action) accessory, appendage, extra, appurtenance, supplement, adjunct; accident; outreach; contingency, incidental; foreigner, stranger, non-documented person. Informal, foreign devil, face.
Verbs — be extrinsic, lie outside or beyond.
Adjectives
1. extrinsical, external, outward, objective, circumstantial, contingent, foreign, impersonal, out-of-body.
2. unessential, nonessential, extraneous, accessory, adventitious, extra, auxiliary, incidental, fortuitous, casual.
Antonyms, see intrinsic.
II
(Roget's IV) modif.
Syn. extraneous, external, foreign, outward; see foreign 1 .
See Synonym Study at foreign .
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) a.
outer, outside, exterior, external, extraneous, foreign.
ANT.: intrinsic, essential
IV
(Roget's Thesaurus II) adjective Not part of the essential nature of a thing: alien, extraneous, foreign. See NATIVE.

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