exotism


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exotism

(ˈɛɡzəˌtɪzəm)
n
a variant form of exoticism
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Noun1.exotism - the quality of being exotic; "he loved the exoticism of Egypt"
foreignness, curiousness, strangeness - the quality of being alien or not native; "the strangeness of a foreigner"
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In any case, there's no doubt about their symbolic character, inferred also from the exotism of the ivory used in their manufacture.
"El ve'i'nat xines i l'exotisme literari" (The Chinese Vicinity and Literary Exotism).
Die Anderen im Schulbuch: Rassismen, Exotismen, Sexismen und Antisemitismus in osterreichischen Schulbuchern [The Others in textbooks: racism, exotism, sexism and anti-Semitism in Austrian text books], Wien, Austria: Braumuller.
Gauguin was an artist with a life full of exotism and mystery, that contributed to the creation of "the Gauguin legend," bringing first the anecdote about the man and only next the understanding for the artist.