extrinsic

extrinsic
    adj 1: 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" [ant: {intrinsic}, {intrinsical}]
    

Extrinsic \Ex*trin"sic\, a. [L. extrinsecus; exter on the
   outside + secus otherwise, beside; akin to E. second: cf. F.
   extrins[`e]que. See {Exterior}, {Second}.]
   1. Not contained in or belonging to a body; external;
      outward; unessential; -- opposed to {intrinsic}.
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            The extrinsic aids of education and of artificial
            culture.                              --I. Taylor.
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   2. (Anat.) Attached partly to an organ or limb and partly to
      some other part; -- said of certain groups of muscles.
      Opposed to {intrinsic}.
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74 Moby Thesaurus words for "extrinsic":
      acquired, adrift, alien, apparent, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous,
      beside the mark, beside the point, beside the question,
      conventionalized, cortical, epidermic, exomorphic, exotic,
      exterior, external, extraneous, extraorganismal, extraterrestrial,
      foreign, foreign-born, formal, formalist, formalistic, formulary,
      fringe, immaterial, impersonal, impertinent, inadmissible,
      inapplicable, inapposite, inappropriate, incidental, inconsequent,
      intrusive, irrelative, irrelevant, legalistic, nihil ad rem,
      nominal, nonessential, nonsubjective, not at issue, objective,
      off the subject, open, out, out-of-the-way, outer, outermost,
      outland, outlandish, outlying, outmost, outside, outstanding,
      outward, outward-facing, parenthetical, pedantic, peripheral,
      public, roundabout, seeming, strange, stylized, superficial,
      surface, ulterior, unearthly, unessential, unrelated