extrinsic
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[edit] English
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- extrinsick (obsolete)
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- IPA: /ɛks.ˈtrɪn.zɪk/
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From Latin extrinsecus (“from without, without, on the outside”), from *extrim, an assumed adverbial form of exter (“outer, outward”) + seccus (“by, on the side”)
[edit] Adjective
extrinsic (comparative more extrinsic, superlative most extrinsic)
- external, separable from the thing itself, inessential
- not belonging to, outside of
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external, separable from the thing itself, inessential
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not belonging to, outside of
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[edit] External links
- extrinsic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- extrinsic in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
