Explore Extrinsic through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like extraneous or unessential. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Extrinsic in a sentence
Extrinsic meaning
- External; separable from the thing itself; inessential.
- Not belonging to something; outside.
Synonyms of Extrinsic
Using Extrinsic
- The main meaning on this page is: External; separable from the thing itself; inessential. | Not belonging to something; outside.
- Useful related words include: extraneous, unessential, inessential, outside.
- In the example corpus, extrinsic often appears in combinations such as: the extrinsic, extrinsic muscles, and extrinsic.
Context around Extrinsic
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 9 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Extrinsic
- In this selection, "extrinsic" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, four, rewards, atopic, muscles, laryngeal and rewards stand out and add context to how "extrinsic" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 4 the extrinsic and intrinsic and an extrinsic evaluation would. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "extrinsic" sits close to words such as abenaki, adria and afn, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with extrinsic
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Extrinsic laryngeal muscles * Sternothyroid muscles depress the larynx. (8 words)
A culture that was driven by validation and extrinsic approval. (10 words)
Incentives can influence our motivation, which can be either intrinsic or extrinsic. (12 words)
A one-kilogram mass is still a one-kilogram mass (as mass is an extrinsic property of the object) but the downward force due to gravity, and therefore its weight, is only one-sixth of what the object would have on Earth. (42 words)
This may be because such extrinsic, top-down incentives may replace (partially or in whole) intrinsic and reputational incentives, motivating the person to focus on obtaining the extrinsic rewards, which overall may make the behaviors less desirable. (37 words)
If the position goes against us, we have plenty of extrinsic value in those options to keep on rolling our contracts both forward in time and down in price which will consequently lower our breakeven over time. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
Extrinsic Lateral view of the tongue, with extrinsic muscles highlighted The four extrinsic muscles originate from bone and extend to the tongue.
Extrinsic The extrinsic laryngeal muscles support and position the larynx within the trachea.
This may be because such extrinsic, top-down incentives may replace (partially or in whole) intrinsic and reputational incentives, motivating the person to focus on obtaining the extrinsic rewards, which overall may make the behaviors less desirable.
A culture that was driven by validation and extrinsic approval.
If the position goes against us, we have plenty of extrinsic value in those options to keep on rolling our contracts both forward in time and down in price which will consequently lower our breakeven over time.
Incentives can influence our motivation, which can be either intrinsic or extrinsic.
Everyone understands why it was done and, as usual with late-stage regimes, there is an extrinsic and intrinsic reason for it.
Looking ahead, MPC reiterated that it continues to pursue activities aimed at delivering additional shareholder value through the maximisation of its current property portfolio as well as extrinsic growth.
In it, they show how AI models trained without “extrinsic rewards” can develop and learn skills.
All multicellular organisms are colonized to some degree by extrinsic organisms, and the vast majority of these exist in either a mutualistic or commensal relationship with the host.
An extrinsic evaluation would run the parser with some other POS tagger, and then with the novel POS tagger, and compare the parsing accuracy.
A one-kilogram mass is still a one-kilogram mass (as mass is an extrinsic property of the object) but the downward force due to gravity, and therefore its weight, is only one-sixth of what the object would have on Earth.
As intrinsic motivation deals with activities that act as their own rewards, extrinsic motivation deals with motivations that are brought on by consequences or punishments.
Asthma may also be classified as atopic (extrinsic) or non-atopic (intrinsic), based on whether symptoms are precipitated by allergens (atopic) or not (non-atopic).
Bramhall countered in 1655, when he printed everything that had passed between them (under the title of A Defence of the True Liberty of Human Actions from Antecedent or Extrinsic Necessity).
Comparison with traditional education main Traditional education uses extrinsic motivation, such as grades and prizes.
During development dendrite morphology is shaped by intrinsic programs within the cell's genome and extrinsic factors such as signals from other cells.
Effects of extrinsic reinforcement for reading during childhood on reported reading habits of college students.
Extrinsic laryngeal muscles * Sternothyroid muscles depress the larynx.
However, the Whitney embedding theorem asserts every surface can in fact be embedded homeomorphically into Euclidean space, in fact into E 4 : The extrinsic and intrinsic approaches turn out to be equivalent.
Common combinations with extrinsic
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the extrinsic 9×
- extrinsic muscles 6×
- and extrinsic 3×
- an extrinsic 3×
- extrinsic and 3×
- with extrinsic 2×
- four extrinsic 2×
- extrinsic laryngeal 2×
- extrinsic rewards 2×
- of extrinsic 2×