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EXTRANEOUSNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does extraneousness mean?
• EXTRANEOUSNESS (noun)
The noun EXTRANEOUSNESS has 1 sense:
1. unrelatedness by virtue of falling outside the matter at hand
Familiarity information: EXTRANEOUSNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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