Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The characteristic of being
exotic ;foreignness .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quality of being exotic
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word exoticness.
Examples
-
Therefore I think that what Polish literature has to offer is mainly originality, maybe even a kind of exoticness.
-
Some of the delegates simply seemed taken by the exoticness of their Oriental adventure.
Early Orientations Raymond Zhong 2011
-
I was fascinated by the exoticness of Hannibal's war, by the bravery and barbarity of ancient battle, by the notion of such a titanic clash of African and European powers.
-
The addition of the East India Sherry amps up the drink's exoticness.
-
It gave me a dose of exoticness, like this honors student could tear it up on the club dance floor or something.
Lifted Wendy Toliver 2010
-
It gave me a dose of exoticness, like this honors student could tear it up on the club dance floor or something.
Lifted Wendy Toliver 2010
-
It gave me a dose of exoticness, like this honors student could tear it up on the club dance floor or something.
Lifted Wendy Toliver 2010
-
It gave me a dose of exoticness, like this honors student could tear it up on the club dance floor or something.
Lifted Wendy Toliver 2010
-
In the same way that science fiction can become unwieldy, labouring under the necessity of explaining a whole other world, so I feared that some historical novels become weighty and slow with descriptions of the hardship, the poverty, the inequalities or the delicious exoticness of another era, to the extent of ending up a self-indulgent chunkster.
-
I think Johan hits on an important issue here–how often the cultures of non-Westernized countries are mixed together into an undifferentiated image of exoticness–for instance, “tribal” fashion and “traditional” handicrafts often supposedly represent “Africa,” which is a meaningless category given the enormous diversity of cultures, languages, clothing styles, artistic motifs, and so on.
Fanta Flavor Is “Inspired by Jamaica” » Sociological Images 2009
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.