Both Uses of
extraneous
in
Atlas Shrugged
- His mouth was the one part of him which he could not pull tight at any time; it was uncomfortably prominent in his lean face, attracting the eyes of any listener: when he spoke, the movement ran through his lower lip, twisting its moist flesh into extraneous contortions of its own.†
Chpt 1.10 *extraneous = not relevant or important to the matter under consideration
- This was only a small, extraneous stab of pain, he thought, a feeling of disappointment in an expectation he had never had the right to expect; he should have known that this was just what a man like Francisco d'Anconia would do-and he wondered angrily why he felt as if a bright, brief flame had died somewhere in a lightless world.†
Chpt 2.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(extraneous) not relevant or important to the matter under consideration
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, extraneous can refer to something that does not belong to that in which it is contained (as in "water free of extraneous matter"); or to something coming from an outside source (as in "Extraneous light in the camera spoiled the photograph.")