1600-1700Greekesoterikos, from esotero ‘further inside’, from eiso ‘inside’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
esoteric religious teachings
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
It brings us into touch with levels of ourself untouched hitherto, and so it has a profound esoteric significance.
It simply feels good to gain even esoteric knowledge, and that is more than enough.
Kelly took dance out of the esoteric realm of swans and princes and tutus.
Pop art directly challenged what was increasingly seen as abstract art's esoteric retreat from the world.
The Bible is no academic tome with an esoteric appeal to those with scholarly minds who can handle abstract concepts.
The efficacy of definitional overlap varies greatly across domains, such that specialist dictionaries may be required for more esoteric or specialist domains.
The number is highly significant in all esoteric teachings.
This, indeed, is the central truth which esoteric training seeks constantly to inculcate into the candidate for esoteric development.
known and understood by only a few people who have special knowledge about something: the esoteric world of scientific supercomputing—esoterically /-kli/ adverb