Exoticism

Pronunciation varies by accent · noun

Meaning

(uncountable) The state of being exotic..

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

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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