exoticismn.
/ɛɡˈzɒtɪsɪz(ə)m/ (a) Tendency to adopt what is exotic or foreign. (b) Exotic character; an instance of this, anything exotic; esp. a foreign idiom or expression.
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1837 Fraser's Mag. 16 641 Academic forcing houses for the promotion of exoticism.
1848 J. C. Hare & A. W. Hare Guesses at Truth 2nd Ser. (ed. 2) 324 The Greek original..is tainted with many exoticisms and other defects.
1887 F. Robinson New Religio Med. 31 An opposite extreme, tending to exoticism.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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n.1837- go out for one's tea
- go out in the poll
- go out like a light
- go out night-clubbing
- go out nightclubbing
- go out of curl
- go out of kind
- go out of one's mind
- go out of one's way
- go out of one's way to do something
- go out of the stable
- go out of the window
- go out of this world
- go out of use
- go out on strike
- go out the window
- go out to fight
- go out with a bang
- go over
- go over a person's head
- go over big
- go over like a lead balloon
- go over the falls
- go over the heckle pins
- go over the left shoulder