Both Uses of
extraneous
in
The Awakening, by Kate Chopin
- 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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(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.")