Learn English – Single word describing something “outside of oneself”

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ie.: The idea was "(blank)". It didn't come from myself, it was divine inspiration, dumb luck, etc.

or maybe: My essence/spirit was outside my body. It was "(blank)".

Best Answer

The two that immediately spring to mind would be external:

  1. Outside of something; on the exterior.

And extrinsic:

  1. external, separable from the thing itself, inessential
  2. not belonging to, outside of
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