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EXTRANEOUSNESS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Unrelatedness by virtue of falling outside the matter at hand

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Hypernyms ("extraneousness" is a kind of...):

unrelatedness (the lack of any particular manner of connectedness)

Derivation:

extraneous (coming from the outside)

extraneous (not essential)

extraneous (not pertinent to the matter under consideration)

extraneous (not belonging to that in which it is contained; introduced from an outside source)

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