exoteric
A person who is not part of an enlightened inner circle, and not privy to esoteric…A person who is not part of an enlightened inner circle, and not privy to esoteric knowledge.
» Crowdsourcing is an exoteric practice.
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1 sensesA person who is not part of an enlightened inner circle, and not privy to esoteric knowledge.
Examples
1 sentencesCrowdsourcing is an exoteric practice.
Origin
The adjective is a learned borrowing from Late Latin exōtericus + English -ic (suffix formThe adjective is a learned borrowing from Late Latin exōtericus + English -ic (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘of or pertaining to’). Exōtericus is borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐξωτερῐκός (exōterĭkós, “exterior, external, outside”, adjective), from ἐξωτέρω (exōtérō, “more exterior”) (the comparative form of ἔξω (éxō, “external, outer”) (ultimately from ἐκ (ek, “beyond; outside”, preposition), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰs (“out”)) + -τέρω (-térō) (an inflected form of -τερος (-teros, suffix forming comparative forms)) + -ῐκός (-ĭkós, suffix forming adjectives).
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