Both Uses
extraneous
in
The Awakening, by Kate Chopin
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- It had crossed her thought like some unsought, extraneous impression.
Chpt 18 *extraneous = not relevant or important to the matter under consideration
- But as she sat there amid her guests, she felt the old ennui overtaking her; the hopelessness which so often assailed her, which came upon her like an obsession, like something extraneous, independent of volition.†
Chpt 30
Definitions:
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(extraneous) not relevant or important to the matter under consideration
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(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.")