extraneous
pronunciation
How to pronounce extraneous in British English:
UK [ɪkˈstreɪniəs]
How to pronounce extraneous in American English:
US [ɪkˈstreɪniəs]
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- Adjective:
- not pertinent to the matter under consideration
- not essential
- not belonging to that in which it is contained; introduced from an outside source
- coming from the outside
Word Origin
- extraneous
- extraneous: see strange
- extraneous (adj.)
- 1630s, from Latin extraneus "external, strange," literally "that is without, from without" (as a noun, "a stranger"), from extra "outside of" (see extra-). A doublet of strange. Related: Extraneously.
Example
- 1. Reinforcement can be intrinsic , extrinsic or extraneous .
- 2. Extraneous reinforcement isn 't directly connected to the act or its completion .
- 3. Both creativity and eccentricity may be the result of genetic variations that increase cognitive disinhibition-the brain 's failure to filter out extraneous information .
- 4. Anxiety in particular gives us tunnel vision ; while we 're focusing on a potential danger , we end up missing a lot of extraneous but potentially beneficial information .
- 5. It 's not clear whether this is because he can 't corroborate them , or because he has an expansive definition of the extraneous .