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exoticism

[ ig-zot-uh-siz-uhm ]

noun

  1. tendency to adopt what is exotic.
  2. exotic quality or character.
  3. anything exotic, as a foreign word or idiom.


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Other Words From

  • ex·oti·cist noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of exoticism1

First recorded in 1820–30; exotic + -ism

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Example Sentences

Every day, he says, New York offers up some new surprise or exoticism.

The collection was described by the house as a form of modern exoticism.

“The exoticism of the model is supposed to be the story but it ends up being nothing,” said New Yorker writer Hilton Als.

The island, a wonderfully clever thing, attained by artificiality a sort of strange exoticism which almost intoxicated Charmian.

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