Definition of Extraneousness

1. Noun. Unrelatedness by virtue of falling outside the matter at hand.

Generic synonyms: Unrelatedness
Derivative terms: Extraneous, Extraneous, Extraneous, Extraneous

Definition of Extraneousness

1. Noun. The state of being extraneous or inessential and irrelevant; extrinsic. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Extraneousness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Extraneousness

extramembranous pregnancy
extrametric
extramission
extramissions
extramitochondrial
extramundane
extramural
extramural practice
extramurally
extramusical
extraneity
extraneous
extraneous variable
extraneously
extraneousness
extraness
extranet
extranets
extranodal
extranoematic
extranuclear
extranuclear inheritance
extranucleolar
extraocular
extraocular muscles
extraofficial
extraoral
extraoral anchorage
extraoral fracture appliance

Literary usage of Extraneousness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Elizabethan Drama, 1558-1642: A History of the Drama in England from the by Felix Emmanuel Schelling (1908)
"Moreover, it has been thought that the extraneousness and contradictory nature of Shakespeare's Hecate as compared with her sister witches is to be ..."

2. The Journal of Speculative Philosophy: Ed. by Wm. T. Harris edited by William Torrey Harris (1881)
"As it is, this distinction of independent being is nothing but the phase, negative for itself, or otherness, or of extraneousness, which, as such, ..."

3. Some Modern Novelists: Appreciations and Estimates by Helen Thomas Follett, Wilson Follett (1918)
"The extraneousness of the intellectual element in the stories is clearly enough shown in The Joy ..."

4. The English Heroic Play by Lewis Nathaniel Chase (1903)
"... it encouraged extraneousness, put a premium on the irrelevant, and distracted attention from the character itself to physical qualities and to material ..."

5. Queens of the Renaissance by M. Beresford Ryley (1907)
"... not only of inapplicability, but of extraneousness. The actions of that early period seem to cling to her little more than the unconscious proceedings ..."

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