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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" |
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intrinsical,
intrinsic situated within or belonging solely to the organ or body part on which it acts; "intrinsic muscles"
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unessential,
inessential not basic or fundamental
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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"
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adscititious supplemental; not part of the real or essential nature of a thing; "adscititious vowels"
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alien,
foreign being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world; "alien customs"; "exotic plants in a greenhouse"; "exotic cuisine"
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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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extraneous not essential; "the ballet struck me as extraneous and somewhat out of keeping with the rest of the play"
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