Usually means: Originating from outside, not inherent.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word extrinsic:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. extrinsic: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. extrinsic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. extrinsic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. extrinsic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. extrinsic: Vocabulary.com
  6. Extrinsic, extrinsic: Wordnik
  7. extrinsic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. extrinsic: Wiktionary
  9. extrinsic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. extrinsic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. extrinsic: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. extrinsic: Dictionary.com
  13. Extrinsic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Extrinsic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. extrinsic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. extrinsic: Rhymezone
  17. Extrinsic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. extrinsic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. extrinsic: Free Dictionary
  20. extrinsic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. extrinsic: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. extrinsic: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. extrinsic: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. extrinsic: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Extrinsic: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. extrinsic: Medical dictionary
  5. Extrinsic: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sociology (No longer online)
  2. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
  3. extrinsic: A Word A Day

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Extrinsic: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See extrinsically as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  external; separable from the thing itself; inessential
adjective:  not belonging to something; outside
noun:  An external factor

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