External vs Extrinsic - What's the difference?
external | extrinsic |
Outside of something; on the exterior.
* Milton
* Shakespeare
Not intrinsic nor essential; accidental; accompanying; superficial.
* Trench
Foreign; relating to or connected with foreign nations.
(anatomy) Away from the mesial plane of the body; lateral.
external, separable from the thing itself, inessential
not belonging to, outside of
As adjectives the difference between external and extrinsic
is that external is outside of something; on the exterior while extrinsic is external, separable from the thing itself, inessential.external
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- This building has some external pipework.
- Of all external things, / She [Fancy] forms imaginations, aery shapes.
- Her virtues graced with external gifts.
- The external circumstances are greatly different.
- external''' trade or commerce; the '''external relations of a state or kingdom