What is another word for exotics?

Pronunciation: [ɛɡzˈɒtɪks] (IPA)

Exotics, the word often used to describe things or people that are foreign or unfamiliar, has a plethora of synonyms to describe it. Some alternative words that can be used include unusual, alien, exoticised, foreign, unaccustomed, unfamiliar, and unconventional. These terms connote a sense of novelty and foreign-ness that exotics often conveys. Another way to describe exotics is by calling them rare or singular, as they are often unique and uncommon within their respective contexts. Sometimes, instead of exotics, people may opt to refer to them as unusual or curious, as these words also capture some of the essence of the idea in question. Ultimately, the term exotics can refer to many different things, and there is no shortage of synonyms to describe them!

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  • Independent

    • Noun, plural
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What are the hypernyms for Exotics?

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Usage examples for Exotics

The Public Gardens of Gottenburg are beautifully arranged, and are kept in exquisite condition,-one large division being designated as the Botanical Gardens, and abundantly supplied with exotics, especially from tropical regions.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
He often said that we were too much inclined to go far from home for our law; that we were fond of legal exotics.
"Memoirs of Orange Jacobs"
Orange Jacobs
The different stories are connected by an extremely picturesque staircase, decorated with gorgeous exotics and ending in a vestibule, or rather an entrance-hall, hung round with antique Flemish draperies.
"Erlach Court"
Ossip Schubin

Famous quotes with Exotics

  • My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a kind that cannot be gratified here, and I am not enough in sympathy with our gross public to make up for the lack on the aesthetic side. One's friends are delightful; but we are none of us Americans, we don't think or feel as the Americans do, we are the wretched exotics produced in a European glass-house, the most displaced and useless class on earth!
    Edith Wharton

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