Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The quality or condition of being exotic.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being exotic.
- noun Anything exotic, as a foreign word or idiom.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of being exotic; also, anything foreign, as a word or idiom; an exotic.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable The state of being
exotic . - noun Something exotic.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quality of being exotic
Etymologies
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Examples
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The line we push, especially our chapter on exoticism, is that the counterculture sees technology as a homogenizing force, and is afraid of that.
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The line we push, especially our chapter on exoticism, is that the counterculture sees technology as a homogenizing force, and is afraid of that.
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The line we push, especially our chapter on exoticism, is that the counterculture sees technology as a homogenizing force, and is afraid of that.
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And then this exoticism is shrink-wrapped and packed and sold right back to an Asian audience.
Rani Manicka Sharon Bakar 2004
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And then this exoticism is shrink-wrapped and packed and sold right back to an Asian audience.
Archive 2004-11-01 Sharon Bakar 2004
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Underlying these eighteenth - and nineteenth-century visual images of the East's exoticism is the impulse to preserve the reassuring sameness found in any representation of difference.
Irish Odalisques and Other Seductive Figures: Thomas Moore 2000
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During the campaign, Obama's "exoticism" - both real (his childhood in Jakarta) and imagined
The New Yorker 2008
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Both types of people were highly admired for one reason or the other but what one might call exoticism is very different from primitivism.
NATURE GEORGE BOAS 1968
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The allure of the latter location (s) brought Gérôme into his most famous - perhaps infamous - body of work, capitalizing on Orientalisme, the French taste for the "exoticism" of the Middle East and the Maghreb.
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The allure of the latter location (s) brought Gérôme into his most famous - perhaps infamous - body of work, capitalizing on Orientalisme, the French taste for the "exoticism" of the Middle East and the Maghreb.
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