Meaning of exoticism | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The state of being exotic.
   uncountable, usually
2. Something exotic.
   uncountable, usually
3. A word changed in spelling or pronunciation to look or sound more exotic or foreign.
   uncountable, usually

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Examples

“For all the exoticism of the images, they possess⟳ a phenomenal immediacy and even contemporaneity.”

“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.”

“The distribution of instruments is fairly traditional, but with piccolo trumpet and bass trombone to explore⟳ extremes, and bells, gongs and tam-tams to variegate the sound⟳. Such exoticisms as the xylorimba (Richard Fitz) and glockenspiel (Jeffrey Milarsky) are introduced along with the sounds of shifting sand.”

“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.”

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