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Adjective: adscititious  `ad-si'ti-shus
  1. Added or derived from something outside; not inherent
    "an adscititious habit rather than an inherent taste"
     
  2. Supplemental; not part of the real or essential nature of a thing
    "adscititious vowels"

See also: extrinsic, inessential, unessential