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Grammar : Noun
Spell : ig-zot-ik
Phonetic Transcription : ɪgˈzɒt ɪk



Definition of exoticness

Origin :
  • 1590s, "belonging to another country," from Middle French exotique (16c.) and directly from Latin exoticus, from Greek exotikos "foreign," literally "from the outside," from exo "outside" (see exo-). Sense of "unusual, strange" first recorded in English 1620s, from notion of "alien, outlandish." In reference to strip-teasers and dancing girls, it is first attested by 1942, American English.
  • Exotic dancer in the nightclub trade means a girl who goes through a few motions while wearing as few clothes as the cops will allow in the city where she is working ... ["Life," May 5, 1947]
  • As a noun from 1640s.
  • As in romance : noun adventure, flight of fancy

Synonyms for exoticness

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