Adjective : extraneous substances in our water. ,an extraneous remark; extraneous decoration. From Dictionary.com.
Now it's been quite a year of overhyped extraneousness, hasn't it?. From Wordnik.com. [The Top 'Nontroversies' Of 2009] Reference
They seem to insist on their radical extraneousness to human concern, on the way in which they simply do not matter — to the plot of this poem, to the scene in which they are posited. From Wordnik.com. [Shelley's Pod People] Reference
It's been quite a year of overhyped extraneousness, hasn't it?. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
November 2nd, 2005 at 2: 52 pm backgemon game play says: backgemon game play extraneousness disengaged enlarger suffrage shine economizing back gammon and tournament and format http://www. postagepaid.net/back-gammon-and-tournament-and-format. html. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » David Broder] Reference
1) Verbosity (4,000 words plus!) and extraneousness (he finally even referenced the world's farmers); 2) I/me exhaustion (34 times) and the messianic cult of personality; 3) the 50/50, split-the-difference trope; 4) the straw man: on the one hand there are realists, on the other idealists, and I Obama singularly reject this either/or dichotomy (as if no one else does as well); 5) veiled attacks on the previous administration; 6) reference to his own unique personal story; 7) good-war/bad-war theory of Afghanistan and Iraq; 8) the hopey-changy rhetorical flourish. From Wordnik.com. [The Corner on National Review Online] Reference
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