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Definition of Extraneousness
1. Noun. Unrelatedness by virtue of falling outside the matter at hand.
Definition of Extraneousness
1. Noun. The state of being extraneous or inessential and irrelevant; extrinsic. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Extraneousness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Extraneousness
Literary usage of Extraneousness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elizabethan Drama, 1558-1642: A History of the Drama in England from the by Felix Emmanuel Schelling (1908)
"Moreover, it has been thought that the extraneousness and contradictory nature
of Shakespeare's Hecate as compared with her sister witches is to be ..."
2. The Journal of Speculative Philosophy: Ed. by Wm. T. Harris edited by William Torrey Harris (1881)
"As it is, this distinction of independent being is nothing but the phase, negative
for itself, or otherness, or of extraneousness, which, as such, ..."
3. Some Modern Novelists: Appreciations and Estimates by Helen Thomas Follett, Wilson Follett (1918)
"The extraneousness of the intellectual element in the stories is clearly enough
shown in The Joy ..."
4. The English Heroic Play by Lewis Nathaniel Chase (1903)
"... it encouraged extraneousness, put a premium on the irrelevant, and distracted
attention from the character itself to physical qualities and to material ..."
5. Queens of the Renaissance by M. Beresford Ryley (1907)
"... not only of inapplicability, but of extraneousness. The actions of that early
period seem to cling to her little more than the unconscious proceedings ..."
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