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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Extrinsic \Ex*trin"sic\, adjective [L. extrinsecus; exter on the outside + secus otherwise, beside; akin to E. second: cf. F. extrins['e]que. See {Exterior}, {Second}.]
1. Not contained in or belonging to a body; external; outward; unessential; -- opposed to {intrinsic}.
The extrinsic aids of education and of artificial culture. --I. Taylor.
2. (Anat.) Attached partly to an organ or limb and partly to some other part; -- said of certain groups of muscles. Opposed to {intrinsic}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
extrinsic
adjective: not forming an essential part of a thing or arising or originating from the outside; "extrinsic evidence"; "an extrinsic feature of the new building"; "that style is something extrinsic to the subject"; "looking for extrinsic aid" [ant: {intrinsic}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
74 Moby Thesaurus words for "extrinsic": acquired, adrift, alien, apparent, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, beside the mark, beside the point, beside the question, conventionalized, cortical, epidermic, exomorphic, exotic, exterior, external, extraneous, extraorganismal, extraterrestrial, foreign, foreign-born, formal, formalist, formalistic, formulary, fringe, immaterial, impersonal, impertinent, inadmissible, inapplicable, inapposite, inappropriate, incidental, inconsequent, intrusive, irrelative, irrelevant, legalistic, nihil ad rem, nominal, nonessential, nonsubjective, not at issue, objective, off the subject, open, out, out-of-the-way, outer, outermost, outland, outlandish, outlying, outmost, outside, outstanding, outward, outward-facing, parenthetical, pedantic, peripheral, public, roundabout, seeming, strange, stylized, superficial, surface, ulterior, unearthly, unessential, unrelated
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