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- noun The state of being
extraneous orinessential andirrelevant ;extrinsic .
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- noun unrelatedness by virtue of falling outside the matter at hand
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Examples
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Now it's been quite a year of overhyped extraneousness, hasn't it?
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They seem to insist on their radical extraneousness to human concern, on the way in which they simply do not matter — to the plot of this poem, to the scene in which they are posited.
Shelley's Pod People 2005
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But if the use of Italian _novelle_ as the basis of plots was an evil that has given an air of unreality and extraneousness to the whole of
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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It's been quite a year of overhyped extraneousness, hasn't it?
NPR Topics: News 2009
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It's been quite a year of overhyped extraneousness, hasn't it?
NPR Topics: News 2009
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