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exoticism

/ig-zot-uh-siz-uhm/US // ɪgˈzɒt əˌsɪz əm //

异国情调,外来主义,异国风情,异域风情

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : tendency to adopt what is exotic.
    • : exotic quality or character.
    • : anything exotic, as a foreign word or idiom.

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Examples

  • The exoticism of food wasn’t something sociologist and NYU food studies professor Krishnendu Ray devoted much time to early in his career.

  • Every day, he says, New York offers up some new surprise or exoticism.

  • The collection was described by the house as a form of modern exoticism.

  • “The exoticism of the model is supposed to be the story but it ends up being nothing,” said New Yorker writer Hilton Als.

  • The island, a wonderfully clever thing, attained by artificiality a sort of strange exoticism which almost intoxicated Charmian.