1500-1600Frenchextrinsèque, from Latinextrinsecus ‘from outside’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
Some teachers believe students need extrinsic rewards to motivate them to learn.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
Certain actions of football fans, for example, are quite clearly directed by factors extrinsic to their group.
Cyclic fluctuations in vole populations have been variously interpreted as the result of intrinsic or extrinsic factors by different workers.
Hygiene factors are essentially extrinsic and motivators are intrinsic.
The aim of his study was to explore why people took part in activities that yielded no extrinsic rewards.
The gastric mucosa resists the corrosive effects of peptic hydrochloric acid secretion and noxious extrinsic agents.
The neural abnormalities that could induce a tachygastria include loss of intrinsic inhibitory innervation or lack of extrinsic autonomic inhibition.
These inducements are both extrinsic and intrinsic.
Together, intrinsic and extrinsic ageing will determine apparent age.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY►extrinsic rewards
Staff who complete extra qualifications receive no extrinsic rewards (=no extra money etc).
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN►reward
· The aim of his study was to explore why people took part in activities that yielded no extrinsic rewards.· But what when these extrinsic rewards are in short supply?
coming from outside or not directly relating to somethingOPP intrinsic: Staff who complete extra qualifications receive no extrinsic rewards (=no extra money etc). a combination of intrinsic and extrinsic factors