英和和英

名詞

exoticism (usually uncountable, plural exoticisms)

1. (uncountable) The state of being exotic.
   • 2004 January 25, Mark Feeney, “A piece of Asia's past, in living color”, in The Boston Globe‎:

     For all the exoticism of the images, they possess a phenomenal immediacy and even contemporaneity.

2. Something exotic.
   • 1985 February 14, Jane Nickerson, “Chinese New Year”, in The Ledger‎:

     Chinese restaurants, now dotting this peninsula like azaleas at Cypress Gardens, have introduced thousands of us Occidentals to the delights of moo goo gai pan. As a result, attempts to produce such exoticisms in our own homes have multiplied.

   • 2000 July 20, Bernard Holland, “LINCOLN CENTER FESTIVAL REVIEW; Messiaen's Nature Worship Calls on Bird Song and Faith”, in The New York Times‎:

     The distribution of instruments is fairly traditional, but with piccolo trumpet and bass trombone to explore extremes, and bells, gongs and tam-tams to variegate the sound. Such exoticisms as the xylorimba (Richard Fitz) and glockenspiel (Jeffrey Milarsky) are introduced along with the sounds of shifting sand.

3. (linguistics) A word changed in spelling or pronunciation to look or sound more exotic or foreign.

   Coordinate term: hyperforeignism

   • The English pronunciations of Beijing and Chumash with French-like j and ch are exoticisms, as is the spelling T'Sou-ke for the original Anglicization Sooke.

使用する際の注意点

• Much more common than the synonyms exoticness and exoticity.

同意語

• (state of being exotic): exoticness, exoticity, exotism
• (made falsely exotic): hyperforeignism

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