Associations to the word «Exogenous»

Wiktionary

EXOGENOUS, adjective. Having an external cause.
EXOGENOUS, adjective. (biology) Produced or originating outside of an organism.
EXOGENOUS, adjective. (medicine) (of a disease) Having a cause external to the infected organism.
EXOGENOUS, adjective. (economics) (of information) Received from outside a group.
EXOGENOUS, adjective. (Can we verify([1]) this sense?) (economics) (of a group) Created by public as opposed to private information.

Dictionary definition

EXOGENOUS, adjective. Derived or originating externally.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky