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endotic

endotic adjective: not exotic; familiar, ordinary.

Adjective

endotic (comparative more endotic, superlative most endotic)

  1. (literary, nonstandard) Not exotic; familiar, ordinary.
    • On the one hand, then, we have the exotic, the logical opposite of which we may therefore describe as endotic. ¶ How many and what civilizations are there? Where do the endotic and the exotic begin and end?1959, Fosco Maraini, translated by Eric Mosbacher, Meeting With Japan., New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, published 1960, page 432

Forms of endotic

comparativemore endotic
superlativemost endotic

Origin of endotic

A variant of exotic, replacing the prefix with endo-. Now mainly used as an allusion to the writings of French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist, and essayist Georges Perec, who used the term endotique in his 1973 essay "Approaches to What?" (Approches de quoi ?).

Questions about endotic

What does endotic mean?
Endotic means not exotic; familiar, ordinary.
What part of speech is endotic?
Endotic is an adjective.

Words near endotic in the dictionary

  1. endothiodontids
  2. endothoracic
  3. endothorax
  4. endothrices
  5. endothrix
  6. endotic
  7. endotome
  8. endotomes
  9. endotoxaemia
  10. endotoxaemias
  11. endotoxaemic

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