Exoteric

Quick meaning: Exoteric is an adjective meaning Of a doctrine, information, etc.: suitable to be imparted to the public without secrecy or other reservations.

Meaning

Of a doctrine, information, etc.: suitable to be imparted to the public without secrecy or other reservations.

More Meanings

1. Capable of being fully or readily comprehended by the public; accessible; also, having an obvious application.
2. External.
3. Having wide currency; popular, prevalent.
4. A person who is not part of an enlightened inner circle, and not privy to esoteric knowledge.

Example Sentences

[M]y Deſign […] is not to Theologize in Philoſophy, but to dravv an Exoterick Fence or exteriour Fortification about Theologie; […]

In one of his works he [Samuel Taylor Coleridge] has ascribed to [Immanuel] Kant the foppery of an exoteric and an esoteric doctrine; and that upon grounds wholly untenable.

In later times Mercury at Athens was, according to [Karl Otfried] Müller, a Secondary also to Apollo, charged with the exoteric and material parts of several among his functions.

[H]e vvill alvvays aſſiſt a careful and accurate examiner in reſcuing the eſoteric purity of his doctrines from that leſs amiable appearance in vvhich their exoteric garb repreſents them.

Word Forms

• exoterics

Synonyms for exoteric

Depending on context, synonyms include exoterical, commonplace, intelligible, ordinary, simple, straightforward.

Antonyms for exoteric

Common opposites include esoteric, arcane, cerebral, inscrutable, unintelligible, abstruse.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include esoteric, exoterical, esoterick, esoterical, externalistic, black.

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