Crossword-Solution: EXTRINSIC
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Extrinsic | a. | Not contained in or belonging to a body; external; outward; unessential; -- opposed to intrinsic. |
| Extrinsic | a. | Attached partly to an organ or limb and partly to some other part/ -- said of certain groups of muscles. Opposed to intrinsic. |
We have 9 clues for the answer “EXTRINSIC”
| Clue | Answers |
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| extroitive | 1 answer |
| not forming an essential part of a thing or arising or originating from the outside | 1 answer |
| Coming from outside | 2 answers |
| Not essential | 4 answers |
| Outer | 15 answers |
| External | 17 answers |
| extraneous | 38 answers |
| outward | 54 answers |
| nonessential | 67 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETERA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with EXTRINSIC (5)
You think there was something very fiendish in the compact, do you not, Miss Melbury? But remember that the most eminent of our surgeons in past times have entered into such agreements.” “Not fiendish—strange.” “Yes, that may be, since strangeness is not in the nature of a thing, but in its relation to something extrinsic—in this case an unessential observer.” He went to his desk, and searching a while found a paper, which be unfolded and brought to her.
She was much more the creature of impulse than of feeling, and consequently more the victim of extrinsic circumstances than was her sister.
The rate of progression is remarkably uniform, and this fact that it is carried from near the Pole to the Equator is sufficient tell-tale of extrinsic aid, and the uniformity of the action increases its significance." On the morning of January 21 I witnessed another interesting Martian scene, which was almost identical with the previous vision of the Arctic regions of this planet, except that the warm season was more advanced, and I was permitted to see the country from another angle.
However, it is established from the definitions of the emotions, which we have set forth, that they all spring from desire, pleasure, or pain, or, rather, that there is nothing besides these three; wherefore each is wont to be called by a variety of names in accordance with its various relations and extrinsic tokens.
From all these considerations it is evident, that justice and injustice, sin and merit, are extrinsic ideas, and not attributes which display the nature of the mind.
Quotes with EXTRINSIC (3)
The information contained in an English sentence or computer software does not derive from the chemistry of the ink or the physics of magnetism, but from a source extrinsic to physics and chemistry altogether. Indeed, in both cases, the message transcends the properties of the medium. The information in DNA also transcends the properties of its material medium.
As for the negation of the Christian Trinity in the Quran - and this negation is extrinsic and conditional - we must take account of certain shades of meaning. The Trinity can be envisaged according to a "vertical" perspective or according to either of two "horizontal" perspectives, one of them being supreme and the other not. The vertical perspective- Beyond-Being, Being and Existence - envisages the hypostases as "descending" from Unity or from the Absolute - or from the Es…
Schooling that children are forced to endure — in which the subject matter is imposed by others and the “learning” is motivated by extrinsic rewards and punishments rather than by the children’s true interests — turns learning from a joyful activity into a chore, to be avoided whenever possible. Coercive schooling, which tragically is the norm in our society, suppresses curiosity and overrides children’s natural ways of learning. It also promotes anxiety, depression and feeli…