Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To regard or represent as foreign or exotic, especially in a stereotypic or superficial way.
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- verb transitive To make (something
banal ) seem to beexotic .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Flores warns that we should be careful not to "exoticize" our fertile mythological world, to write of such strangeness for the sake of addressing a particular audience, lest we lose the original honesty of what is Filipino in them.
Archive 2007-09-01 2007
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With a tendency to exoticize his own culture, he slept in tents, professed the goodness of the Bedouin ethos, and wrote poems on the corruption of urban life.
Igor Cherstich: Qaddafi Death Shows He Was Just a Man Igor Cherstich 2011
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They actually have everything going in their life, but find a spiritual and emotional lack in their lives and rather than trying to find their own lives in their own country they exoticize the cultures of others as being more fulfilled than theirs and think by going on a soul searching journey, while leaving behind their responsibilities, they'll find inner peace.
Hani Almadhoun: 7 Americans the World Hates Hani Almadhoun 2010
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They actually have everything going in their life, but find a spiritual and emotional lack in their lives and rather than trying to find their own lives in their own country they exoticize the cultures of others as being more fulfilled than theirs and think by going on a soul searching journey, while leaving behind their responsibilities, they'll find inner peace.
Hani Almadhoun: 7 Americans the World Hates Hani Almadhoun 2010
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They actually have everything going in their life, but find a spiritual and emotional lack in their lives and rather than trying to find their own lives in their own country they exoticize the cultures of others as being more fulfilled than theirs and think by going on a soul searching journey, while leaving behind their responsibilities, they'll find inner peace.
Hani Almadhoun: 7 Americans the World Hates Hani Almadhoun 2010
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With a tendency to exoticize his own culture, he slept in tents, professed the goodness of the Bedouin ethos, and wrote poems on the corruption of urban life.
Igor Cherstich: Qaddafi Death Shows He Was Just a Man Igor Cherstich 2011
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They actually have everything going in their life, but find a spiritual and emotional lack in their lives and rather than trying to find their own lives in their own country they exoticize the cultures of others as being more fulfilled than theirs and think by going on a soul searching journey, while leaving behind their responsibilities, they'll find inner peace.
Hani Almadhoun: 7 Americans the World Hates Hani Almadhoun 2010
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I wanted to sort of "de-exoticize" the idea of the Muslim-American family -- to allow readers to learn about Kathy's conversion [to Islam] and see the functioning of a family that is exactly like their own.
Wajahat Ali: A Muslim American Hero: A Conversation With Dave Eggers on Zeitoun 2009
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They game will be to exoticize Barack and turn him into a crypto-Muslim/terror sympathizer.
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It's entirely plausible for a 50ish white guy in late-'70s/early-'80s America to exoticize a woman in this way -- heck, it's unfortunately still plausible today -- and it's also plausible that a certain sort of Kenyan father might want his daughter to be "circumcised" in the traditional way -- but I am a little bit queasy about the reason Tiptree seems to have chosen to include these details.
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