noun
Meaning 1
The state of being exotic.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
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Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
exoticism
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noun
Meaning 2
Something exotic.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
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noun
Meaning 3
A word changed in spelling or pronunciation to look or sound more exotic or foreign.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
Examples
- 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.
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noun
Meaning 4
the quality of being exotic
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- he loved the exoticism of Egypt
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: exoticness, exotism
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: foreignness, strangeness, curiousness
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English exotic Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English exoticism From exotic + -ism.
Across languages
Translations
18 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: exotisme — the state of being exotic
- Chinese Mandarin: 異國情調 /异国情调 (yìguó qíngdiào) — the state of being exotic
- Finnish: eksoottisuus — the state of being exotic
- Finnish: eksotiikka — the state of being exotic
- French: exotisme — the state of being exotic
- German: Exotik — the state of being exotic
- Greek: εξωτισμός (exotismós) — the state of being exotic
- Italian: esotismo — the state of being exotic
- Italian: esoticità — the state of being exotic
- Portuguese: exotismo — the state of being exotic
- Russian: экзоти́чность (ekzotíčnostʹ) — the state of being exotic
- Spanish: exotismo — the state of being exotic
- Welsh: dieithrwch — the state of being exotic
- Chinese Mandarin: 有異國情調的事物 /有异国情调的事物 (yǒu yìguó qíngdiào de shìwù) — something exotic
- Finnish: erikoisuus — something exotic
- Finnish: eksoottisuus — something exotic
- German: Exot — something exotic
- Russian: экзо́тика (ekzótika) — something exotic