adventitiousness
31uncertainty — Synonyms and related words: Pyrrhonism, accidentality, actuarial calculation, adventitiousness, agitation, ambiguity, ambiguousness, ambitendency, ambivalence, amphibology, anxiety, apprehension, arrhythmia, bleariness, blur, blurriness, bother,… …
32adventitious — (adj.) of the nature of an addition from without, c.1600, from M.L. adventitius coming from abroad, extraneous, a corruption of L. adventicius foreign, strange, accidental, from advent pp. stem of advenire arrive (see ADVENT (Cf. advent)).… …
33accident — 1 *quality, character, attribute, property Analogous words: mark, *sign, note, badge, token, symptom: characteristic, peculiarity (see corresponding adjectives at CHARACTERISTIC) Antonyms: substance (in philosophy) 2 *chance, hazard, luck, fort …
34adventitious — /ædvɛnˈtɪʃəs / (say adven tishuhs) adjective 1. accidentally or casually acquired; added extrinsically; foreign. 2. Botany, Zoology appearing in an abnormal or unusual position or place, as a root. {Latin adventīcius coming from abroad}… …
35adventitious — [ad΄ven tish′əs, ad΄vəntish′əs] adj. [L adventicius, coming from abroad: see ADVENT] 1. added from outside; not inherent; accidental 2. occurring in unusual or abnormal places [adventitious roots growing on a stem] SYN. ACCIDENTAL adventitiously… …
