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EXOTICNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does exoticness mean?
• EXOTICNESS (noun)
The noun EXOTICNESS has 1 sense:
1. the quality of being exotic
Familiarity information: EXOTICNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being exotic
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
exoticism; exoticness; exotism
Context example:
he loved the exoticism of Egypt
Hypernyms ("exoticness" is a kind of...):
curiousness; foreignness; strangeness (the quality of being alien or not native)
Derivation:
exotic (strikingly strange or unusual)
exotic (being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world)
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