Extraneous vs Accidental - What's the difference?
extraneous | accidental |
Not belonging to, or dependent upon, a thing; without or beyond a thing; foreign
Not essential or intrinsic
Not essential; incidental, secondary.
(music) Adjusted by one or two semitones, in temporary departure from the key signature.
Occurring sometimes, by chance; occasional.
Happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not according to the usual course of things; by accident, unintentional.
*1603 , (John Florio), translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays , III.1:
*:The way to trueth is but one and simple, that of particular profit and benefit of affaires a man hath in charge, double, uneven and accidentall .
(geometry) Being a double point with two distinct tangent planes in 4-dimensional projective space.
A property which is not essential; a nonessential; anything happening accidentally.
* Fuller — He conceived it just that accidentals ... should sink with the substance of the accusation.
(painting, pluralonly) Those fortuitous effects produced by luminous rays falling on certain objects so that some parts stand forth in abnormal brightness and other parts are cast into a deep shadow.
(music) A sharp, flat, or natural, occurring not at the commencement of a piece of music as the signature, but before a particular note.
As adjectives the difference between extraneous and accidental
is that extraneous is not belonging to, or dependent upon, a thing; without or beyond a thing; foreign while accidental is not essential; incidental, secondary.As a noun accidental is
a property which is not essential; a nonessential; anything happening accidentally.extraneous
English
Adjective
(-)- to separate gold from extraneous matter
- Extraneous substances were found on my cup of water.