Associations to the word «Adventitious»

Wiktionary

ADVENTITIOUS, adjective. From an external source; not innate or inherent, foreign.
ADVENTITIOUS, adjective. Accidental, additional, appearing casually.
ADVENTITIOUS, adjective. (genetics) (medicine) Not congenital; acquired.
ADVENTITIOUS, adjective. (biology) Developing in an unusual place or from an unusual source.

Dictionary definition

ADVENTITIOUS, adjective. 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".

Wise words

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.
Ray Bradbury