Adjective

(en adjective)

Foreign, especially in an exciting way.

* (John Evelyn) (1620-1706)

Nothing was so splendid and exotic as the ambassador.

* {{quote-book, year=1905, author=

, title= , chapter=2 citation , passage=“Two or three months more went by?; the public were eagerly awaiting the arrival of this semi-exotic claimant to an English peerage, and sensations, surpassing those of the Tichbourne case, were looked forward to with palpitating interest. […]”}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Travels and travails , passage=Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.}}

Non-native to the ecosystem.

Being or relating to an option with features that make it more complex than commonly traded options.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Suitable to be imparted to the public without secrecy or other reserves

* De Quincey

The foppery of an exoteric and esoteric doctrine.

* {{quote-book, 2007, Reza Shah-Kazemi, chapter=Frithjof Schuon and Prayer, editor=Martin Lings, The Underlying Religion citation

, passage=Again, it is folly to belittle the significance of the canonical prayer — or exoteric rites in general — out of some presumptuous notion of esoterism.}}

(by extension) Accessible; capable of being readily or fully comprehended; or, having an obvious application

* 1977 , Gaynor Jones and Jay Rahn, "Definitions of Popular Music: Recycled," Journal of Aesthetic Education , vol. 11, no. 4. (October), page 81:

The grouping together of folk and elite might be termed relatively "esoteric", in contrast to the more "exoteric " popular forms.

(rare) Public or popular; having wide currency

* {{quote-book, 1850, , Latter-Day Pamphlets citation

, passage=Such, from sad personal experience and credited prevailing rumor, is the exoteric public conviction about these sublime establishments in Downing Street and the neighborhood, the esoteric mysteries of which are indeed still held sacred by the initiated, but believed by the world to be mere Dalai-Lama pills, manufactured let not refined lips hint how, and quite un-salvatory to mankind.}}

(obsolete) External

* {{quote-book, 1790, , Horae Paulinae citation

, passage=