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Definition of Exotism
1. Noun. The quality of being exotic. "He loved the exoticism of Egypt"
Generic synonyms: Curiousness, Foreignness, Strangeness
Derivative terms: Exotic, Exotic
Definition of Exotism
1. an exotic [n -S] - See also: exotic
Lexicographical Neighbors of Exotism
Literary usage of Exotism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris, George Grove (1897)
"It is indeed to Saint-Pierre that French critics are inclined to give the credit
of the initiation of what they call exotism. The exotism of the chief ..."
2. Philosophy, Humanity and Ecology: Vol. 1: Philosophy of Nature edited by J. Odera Oruka (1996)
"exotism As far as philosophy is concerned I would like to describe exotism as
the egoistical manner of acquiring strange views of life starting from a ..."
3. Goldoni and the Venice of His Time by Joseph Spencer Kennard (1920)
"... full of the pathos and the exotism which was the momentary fad. With his usual
facility of adaptation he gave the sort of things that his actors could ..."
4. Problems and Methods of Literary History: With Special Reference to Modern by André Morize (1922)
"... and exotism can be traced to Chateaubriand, Ossian, the Koran, the Psalms, or
to some other reading of ..."
5. Lectures on Literature by Columbia University (1911)
"... more broadly, interest in the past) and exotism helped to overthrow the rules,
and to make standards of taste relative where they had been absolute. ..."
6. Handel by Romain Rolland (1916)
"I will not say with Saint-Saens that " there was no question of exotism with'him,"
for Handel seems to have sought this very thing more than once ; notably ..."
7. Latin-American [mythology] by Hartley Burr Alexander (1920)
"... and it is small wonder that that interest was transformed, where the marvel
of the New World was in question, into a wave of American exotism which rose ..."
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