Thesaurus / extrinsic
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There are extrinsic measures of worth, which includes titles, promotions, how much someone is paid, or who has the awesome corner office.
CREATING A BETTER HUMAN EXPERIENCE AT WORK STARTS WITH TRUSTMIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW INSIGHTSOCTOBER 5, 2021MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWThe way it connects to worth is that worth can be either intrinsic or extrinsic.
CREATING A BETTER HUMAN EXPERIENCE AT WORK STARTS WITH TRUSTMIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW INSIGHTSOCTOBER 5, 2021MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWSo, there’s an extrinsic measures of worth, such as titles and promotions, how much someone is paid, or who has the awesome corner office.
CREATING A BETTER HUMAN EXPERIENCE AT WORK STARTS WITH TRUSTMIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW INSIGHTSOCTOBER 5, 2021MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWThose who rely more or less on claims extrinsic, are sure to be surpassed by those whose power is from within.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, NO. CCCXXVIII. FEBRUARY, 1843. VOL. LIII.VARIOUSNay the highest ensign that men ever met and embraced under, the Cross itself, had no meaning save an accidental extrinsic one.
SARTOR RESARTUSTHOMAS CARLYLEBy means of the extrinsic muscles the larynx is connected with the bones of the chest, neck, and head.
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SINGINGDAVID C. TAYLORIn New York, the courts adhere to the English rule, and admit no extrinsic evidence, except to explain a latent ambiguity.
THE CURIOSITIES AND LAW OF WILLSJOHN PROFFATTMilton has an allusion to an eclipse of the Sun which possesses a two-fold interest—intrinsic and extrinsic.
THE STORY OF ECLIPSESGEORGE CHAMBERSBoth make the same fundamental error of regarding instrumentation as something extrinsic from the music for which it exists.
AN AUTOBIOGRAPHYIGOR STRAVINSKYThe poem has no genuinely dramatic course; there was not the smallest intrinsic or extrinsic reason to dramatize it more fully.
THE STANDARD ORATORIOSGEORGE P. UPTONWORDS RELATED TO EXTRINSIC
- accidental
- additional
- avoidable
- beside the point
- casual
- causeless
- chance
- dispensable
- excess
- exorbitant
- expendable
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- futile
- gratuitous
- haphazard
- irrelevant
- lavish
- needless
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- nonessential
- optional
- prodigal
- profuse
- random
- redundant
- supererogatory
- superfluous
- surplus
- uncalled-for
- uncritical
- undesirable
- unessential
- unneeded
- unrequired
- useless
- wanton
- worthless
- abhorrent
- abominable
- adverse
- against
- alien
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- counter
- creepy
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- extraneous
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- horrid
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- offensive
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- revolting
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- sickening
- unconformable
- unfitted
- unfriendly
- vile
- accidental
- additional
- avoidable
- beside the point
- casual
- causeless
- chance
- dispensable
- excess
- exorbitant
- expendable
- extraneous
- extrinsic
- fortuitous
- futile
- gratuitous
- haphazard
- inessential
- irrelevant
- lavish
- needless
- noncompulsory
- nonessential
- optional
- prodigal
- profuse
- random
- redundant
- supererogatory
- superfluous
- surplus
- uncalled-for
- uncritical
- undesirable
- unessential
- unneeded
- unrequired
- useless
- wanton
- worthless
- accidental
- additional
- avoidable
- beside the point
- casual
- causeless
- chance
- dispensable
- excess
- exorbitant
- expendable
- extraneous
- extrinsic
- fortuitous
- futile
- gratuitous
- haphazard
- inessential
- irrelevant
- lavish
- needless
- noncompulsory
- nonessential
- optional
- prodigal
- profuse
- random
- redundant
- supererogatory
- superfluous
- surplus
- uncalled-for
- uncritical
- undesirable
- unessential
- unrequired
- useless
- wanton
- worthless
- accidental
- additional
- avoidable
- beside the point
- casual
- causeless
- chance
- dispensable
- excess
- exorbitant
- expendable
- extraneous
- extrinsic
- fortuitous
- futile
- gratuitous
- haphazard
- inessential
- irrelevant
- lavish
- needless
- noncompulsory
- nonessential
- optional
- prodigal
- profuse
- random
- redundant
- supererogatory
- superfluous
- surplus
- uncalled-for
- uncritical
- undesirable
- unessential
- unneeded
- useless
- wanton
- worthless
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