Thesaurus / extrinsic

extrinsic

How to use extrinsic in a sentence

There are extrinsic measures of worth, which includes titles, promotions, how much someone is paid, or who has the awesome corner office.

The way it connects to worth is that worth can be either intrinsic or extrinsic.

So, there’s an extrinsic measures of worth, such as titles and promotions, how much someone is paid, or who has the awesome corner office.

Those who rely more or less on claims extrinsic, are sure to be surpassed by those whose power is from within.

Nay the highest ensign that men ever met and embraced under, the Cross itself, had no meaning save an accidental extrinsic one.

By means of the extrinsic muscles the larynx is connected with the bones of the chest, neck, and head.

In New York, the courts adhere to the English rule, and admit no extrinsic evidence, except to explain a latent ambiguity.

Milton has an allusion to an eclipse of the Sun which possesses a two-fold interest—intrinsic and extrinsic.

Both make the same fundamental error of regarding instrumentation as something extrinsic from the music for which it exists.

The poem has no genuinely dramatic course; there was not the smallest intrinsic or extrinsic reason to dramatize it more fully.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985