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Definition of Exoticism
1. Noun. The quality of being exotic. "He loved the exoticism of Egypt"
Generic synonyms: Curiousness, Foreignness, Strangeness
Derivative terms: Exotic, Exotic
Definition of Exoticism
1. n. The state of being exotic; also, anything foreign, as a word or idiom; an exotic.
Definition of Exoticism
1. Noun. The state of being exotic. ¹
2. Noun. Something exotic. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Exoticism
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Exoticism
Literary usage of Exoticism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs of Dr. Thomas W. Evans: The Second French Empire by Thomas Wiltberger Evans (1905)
"... to General John A. Dix—The American colony—How things have changed—Parisian
Society in those days—Causes of its decadence —Its "exoticism"—Sunt lacrimae ..."
2. Musical Studies and Silhouettes by Camille Bellaigue, Ellen Orr (1900)
"Let us devote a few moments to this exoticism in music,—and, ... exoticism is
the taste for and the representation of things at a distance and rare. ..."
3. Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Cosmopolitan Spirit in Literature: A Study of by Joseph Texte (1899)
"What then was it that cosmopolitanism, or " exoticism," represented at the outset ?
Few of the historians of French literature have asked themselves the ..."
4. The Great French Painters: And the Evolution of French Painting from 1830 to by Camille Mauclair (1903)
"Japonism has deposed orientalism and turned men's minds toward a wider exoticism.
The artist of to-day, when shutting the modern vision from his eyes, ..."
5. The New Music Review and Church Music Review by American Guild of Organists (1906)
"Of course Saint-Saens' Danse Macabre might be called exotic but exoticism that
is of a realm beyond the grave, and not of the empires of the East. ..."
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