[f. as prec. + -ISM.] a. Tendency to adopt what is exotic or foreign. b. Exotic character; an instance of this, anything exotic; esp. a foreign idiom or expression.
1827. Hare, Guesses (1859), 503. The Greek original … is tainted with many exoticisms and other defects.
1837. Fraser’s Mag., XVI. 641/2. Academic forcing houses for the promotion of exoticism.
1887. F. Robinson, New Relig. Med., 31. An opposite extreme, tending to exoticism.
