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

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche