Exotic vs Distant - What's the difference?
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Foreign, especially in an exciting way.
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Being or relating to an option with features that make it more complex than commonly traded options.
(biology) An organism that is exotic to an environment.
An exotic dancer; a stripteaser.
(physics) Any exotic particle.
Far off (physically, logically or mentally).
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Emotionally unresponsive or unwilling to express genuine feelings.
Exotic is a related term of distant.
As adjectives the difference between exotic and distant
is that exotic is exotic while distant is far off (physically, logically or mentally).exotic
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Nothing was so splendid and exotic as the ambassador.
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Derived terms
* exotically * exoticness * exotic atom * exotic baryon * exotic cheroot * exotic dancer * exotic sphereNoun
(en noun)- Glueballs, theoretical particles composed only of gluons, are exotics .