Adventitious
WordNet

adjective


(1)   Associated by chance and not an integral part
"Poetry is something to which words are the accidental, not by any means the essential form"- Frederick W. Robertson
"They had to decide whether his misconduct was adventitious or the result of a flaw in his character"
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Etymology


From , from .

Adjective



  1. From an external source; not innate or inherent, foreign.
  2. accidental, additional, appearing casually
  3. Not congenital; acquired.
  4. Developing in an unusual place or from an unusual source.
 
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