EXOTISM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does exotism mean? 

• EXOTISM (noun)
  The noun EXOTISM has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being exotic

  Familiarity information: EXOTISM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXOTISM (noun)

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 ("exotism" is a kind of...):

curiousness; foreignness; strangeness (the quality of being alien or not native)