adj
Meaning 1
External; separable from the thing itself; inessential.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
extrinsic
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adj
Meaning 2
Not belonging to something; outside.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 3
An external factor.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adjective
Meaning 4
not forming an essential part of a thing or arising or originating from the outside
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- extrinsic evidence
- an extrinsic feature of the new building
- that style is something extrinsic to the subject
- looking for extrinsic aid
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: intrinsic
History
Etymology
From French extrinsèque, from Latin extrinsecus (“from without, without, on the outside”), from *extrim, an assumed adverbial form of exter (“outer, outward”) + secus (“by, on the side”).
Across languages
Translations
19 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Asturian: estrínsecu — external, separable from the thing itself, inessential
- Bulgarian: външен (vǎnšen) — external, separable from the thing itself, inessential
- Bulgarian: несвойствен (nesvojstven) — external, separable from the thing itself, inessential
- Catalan: extrínsec — external, separable from the thing itself, inessential
- Chinese Mandarin: 外來 /外来 (wàilái) — external, separable from the thing itself, inessential
- French: extrinsèque — external, separable from the thing itself, inessential
- Italian: estrinseco — external, separable from the thing itself, inessential
- Portuguese: extrínseco — external, separable from the thing itself, inessential
- Russian: вне́шний (vnéšnij) — external, separable from the thing itself, inessential
- Serbo-Croatian: ekstrìnsičan — external, separable from the thing itself, inessential
- Spanish: extrínseco — external, separable from the thing itself, inessential
- Bulgarian: чужд (čužd) — not belonging to, outside
- Chinese Mandarin: 非本質 /本质 (fēi) — not belonging to, outside
- Chinese Mandarin: 非固有 (fēi) — not belonging to, outside
- Chinese Mandarin: 外在 (wàizài) — not belonging to, outside
- Indonesian: ekstrinsik — not belonging to, outside
- Russian: посторо́нний (postorónnij) — not belonging to, outside
- Serbo-Croatian: ekstrìnsičan — not belonging to, outside
- Serbo-Croatian: ìzvanjskī — not belonging to, outside
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