extrasomatic, a.
(ˌɛkstrəsəʊˈmætɪk)
[f. extra- + somatic a.]
Deriving from or referring to events external to a person considered as an individual or as a member of society.
| 1938 C. D. Broad Exam. McTaggart's Philos. II. i. xxvii. 59, I begin by dividing ostensible sense-perception into ‘extra-somatic’ and ‘intra-somatic’. In the former the percipient seems to himself to be perceiving foreign bodies or events. Ibid., There are at least three important forms of extra-somatic sense-perception, viz., hearing, sight, and touch. 1947 Amer. Sociological Rev. XII. 687/2 Human behavior is, therefore, always and everywhere, made up of these two ingredients: the dynamic organization of nerves, glands, muscles and sense organs that is man, and the extra-somatic cultural tradition. Ibid. 693/2 Language has an extra-somatic, non⁓biological, non-psychological character. It had an existence prior to the birth of any individual speaking it; it comes to each person from the outside. 1964 E. A. Nida Toward Sci. Transl. v. 70 While referential meanings are extralinguistic, extrasomatic, and situational.., emotive meanings are extralinguistic, somatic and behavioral. |