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extrinsic

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Adj — Coming from outside something, and not a necessary part of it.

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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”).

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