extrinsic : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: extrinsic	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
extrinsic adj 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" Antonym(s): intrinsic, intrinsical
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Extrinsic \Extrin"sic\, a. [L. extrinsecus; exter on the outside + secus otherwise, beside; akin to E. second: cf. F. extrins[8a]que. See {Exterior}, {Second}.] 1. Not contained in or belonging to a body; external; outward; unessential; -- opposed to intrinsic. The extrinsic* aids of education and of artificial culture. --I. Taylor. 2. (Anat.) Attached partly to an organ or limb and partly to some other part[?] -- said of certain groups of muscles. Opposed to intrinsic.