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endotic

adj · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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adj

Meaning 1

Not exotic; familiar, ordinary.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: literary, nonstandard

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History

Etymology

A variant of exotic, replacing the prefix with endo-. Now mainly used as an allusion to the writings of French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist, and essayist Georges Perec, who used the term endotique in his 1973 essay "Approaches to What?" (Approches de quoi ?).