exoticism

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The state of being exotic. uncountable,usually
    — For all the exoticism of the images, they possess a phenomenal immediacy and even contemporaneity.
  2. Something exotic. uncountable,usually
    — 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.
  3. A word changed in spelling or pronunciation to look or sound more exotic or foreign. uncountable,usually
    — 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.

词形变化

exoticisms plural

词汇关系

近义词
hyperforeignism

词源

Etymology tree
English exotic
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English exoticism
From exotic + -ism.
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