exoticism

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The state of being exotic.

   “For all the exoticism of the images, they possess a phenomenal immediacy and even contemporaneity.”

2. isim Something exotic.

   “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. isim A word changed in spelling or pronunciation to look or sound more exotic or foreign.

   “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.”