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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 handplay

  Familiarity information: EXTRANEOUSNESS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


EXTRANEOUSNESS (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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