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Extrinsic

ɛkˈstrɪn(t)sɪk

Extrinsic definitions

adjective

Inflections:

extrinsic

not part of the essential nature of someone or something; coming or operating from outside

"a complex interplay of extrinsic and intrinsic factors"

Synonyms:
external extraneous exterior outside outward alien foreign adventitious superficial surface
(of a muscle, such as an eye muscle) having its origin some distance from the part which it moves