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Definition of Exoticness
1. Noun. The quality of being exotic. "He loved the exoticism of Egypt"
Generic synonyms: Curiousness, Foreignness, Strangeness
Derivative terms: Exotic, Exotic
Definition of Exoticness
1. Noun. The characteristic of being exotic; foreignness. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Exoticness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Exoticness
Literary usage of Exoticness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Providential Anti-Semitism: Nationalism and Polity in Nineteenth Century by William O. Oldson (1991)
"And, as might be expected, the question of "quality" emerged heightened by the
exoticness of the appear- 18 See 86 & 189-90. ..."
2. Plays and Players: Leaves from a Critic's Scrapbook by Walter Prichard Eaton (1916)
"But as you and I know Egypt's queen, a certain exoticness is demanded, and neither
Miss Marlowe nor Miss Anglin could find in her own personality the right ..."
3. Back from Utopia: The Challenge of the Modern Movementby Hubert-Jan Henket, Hilde Heynen by Hubert-Jan Henket, Hilde Heynen (2002)
"... the values of modernity and exoticness diminish, and, concludes Smith, it
becomes paradoxically archaic.23 The incongruities of newness, history and age ..."
4. WMD Machete by Mark Plimsoll (2006)
"Over the last month, I grew accustomed to the predominant black hair and tan
skins around me, but not to my own exoticness in this context. ..."
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