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exoticism

noun

Etymology

From exotic + -ism.

  1. derived from ἐξωτικός — “foreign”
  2. derived from exōticus
  3. borrowed from exotique
  4. suffixed as exoticism — “exotic + ism”

Definitions

  1. The state of being exotic.

    • For all the exoticism of the images, they possess a phenomenal immediacy and even contemporaneity.

  2. Something exotic.

  3. A word changed in spelling or pronunciation to look or sound more exotic or foreign.

    • The English pronunciations of Beijing and Chumash with French-like j and ch are exoticisms, as is the spelling T'Sou-ke for the original Anglicization Sooke.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for exoticism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA