exoticism
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exoticism
noun exoticisms
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The state of being exotic.
For all the exoticism of the images, they possess a phenomenal immediacy and even contemporaneity.
Similar: exoticness, exoticity, exotism
- Something exotic. Chinese restaurants, now dotting this peninsula like azaleas at Cypress Gardens, have introduced thousands of us Occidentals to the delights of moo goo gai pan. As a result, attempts to produce such exoticisms in our own homes have multiplied.
- 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.
Similar: hyperforeignism
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noun the state of being exotic
| Español | exotismo |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 異國情調 /异国情调 yìguó qíngdiào |
| Português | exotismo |
| Français | exotisme |
| Deutsch | Exotik |
| Italiano | esotismo, esoticità |
| Ελληνικά | εξωτισμός exotismós |
| Русский | экзоти́чность ekzotíčnostʹ |
noun something exotic
| 中文 | 有異國情調的事物 /有异国情调的事物 yǒu yìguó qíngdiào de shìwù |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | Exot |
| Русский | экзо́тика ekzótika |
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