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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The quality or condition of being exotic.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The state of being exotic.
  2. n. Anything exotic, as a foreign word or idiom.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The state of being exotic.
  2. n. Something exotic.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The state of being exotic; also, anything foreign, as a word or idiom; an exotic.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the quality of being exotic

Examples

  • “The line we push, especially our chapter on exoticism, is that the counterculture sees technology as a homogenizing force, and is afraid of that.”

    Rebels Without a Cause

  • “And then this exoticism is shrink-wrapped and packed and sold right back to an Asian audience.”

    Archive 2004-11-01

  • “Underlying these eighteenth - and nineteenth-century visual images of the East's exoticism is the impulse to preserve the reassuring sameness found in any representation of difference.”

    Irish Odalisques and Other Seductive Figures: Thomas Moore

  • “During the campaign, Obama's "exoticism" - both real (his childhood in Jakarta) and imagined”

    The New Yorker

  • “Both types of people were highly admired for one reason or the other but what one might call exoticism is very different from primitivism.”

    NATURE

  • “The allure of the latter location (s) brought Gérôme into his most famous - perhaps infamous - body of work, capitalizing on Orientalisme, the French taste for the "exoticism" of the Middle East and the Maghreb.”

    The Huffington Post: Peter Frank: Blague d'Art: First Impressions

  • “The allure of the latter location (s) brought Gérôme into his most famous - perhaps infamous - body of work, capitalizing on Orientalisme, the French taste for the "exoticism" of the Middle East and the Maghreb.”

    The Huffington Post: Peter Frank: Blague d'Art: First Impressions

  • “The issue with the former cover is that it unintentionally reinforced the meme -- that Obama is an Agent on The War Against Terror or, if you prefer, to allow his "exoticism" as a proxy for any remaining legacy of racist bias.”

    The Democratic Convention Day One: To Know Him (and Her) is to Vote Obama

  • “A tongue-in-cheek way to reflect their 'exoticism'?”

    Hesse Seewald Army Uniforms

  • “He calls it "exoticism", intended to attract Western readers.”

    Tuesday, July 22, 2008

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