Exotic
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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"The exotic and the erotic ideals go hand in hand, and this fact also contributes another proof of a more or less obvious truth - that is, that a love of the exotic is usually an imaginative projection of a sexual desire. "--The Romantic Agony (1930) by Mario Praz, p. 207 "And yet the very density of the network of global communication, the very accessibility of foreign lands, directly or indirectly, intensified the confrontation and the intermingling of the western and exotic worlds."-- The Age of Empire: 1875–1914 (1987) by E. J. Hobsbawm |
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Exotic means foreign, with the connotation of excitingly foreign. It can also refer to Non-native to the ecosystem.
Etymology
From Latin exoticus, from ἐξωτικός (eksotikos, “foreign”), literally "from the outside", from ἐξω- (ekso, “outside”), from ἐξ (eks, “out of”).
See also
- Exotic dancer - a type of dancer or stripper
- Exotic painting - a 19th century art genre
- Exotica
- Exoticism
