unextensive

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The grounds for appreciating the United Nations are concededly unextensive; but its detractors may unjustly undervalue it as a convenience for Americans.

Keeping the Lid On Kempton, Murray 1986
They have been unduly considered as objective and as representing matter because they are better known and measurable, while the other sensations, the unextensive sensations of the other senses, are considered as subjective for the reasons that they are less known and less measurable: and they are therefore looked on as connected with our sensibility, our Ego, and are used to form the moral world.

The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps Alfred Binet 1884