exotic

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   From a faraway country and seeming exciting or unusual.

   The market was full of exotic fruits I had never seen before.

2. 2
   adj

   Strikingly strange, unusual, or different from the ordinary.

   She wore her hair in an exotic style that turned heads.

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Simplified etymology

Exotic entered English in the late 16th century from Greek exōtikos “foreign,” derived from exō “outside.” Its association with foreign origin later gave it a dimension of glamour.

Borrowed from Middle French exotique, from Latin exōticus, from Ancient Greek ἐξωτικός (exōtikós, “foreign”, literally “from the outside”), from ἐξω- (exō-, “outside”), from ἐξ (ex, “out of”).

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