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endotic

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
en-dot-ic
IPA
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Not exotic; familiar, ordinary.

Literary

Example Sentences

Etymology

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 ?).

Usage

Inflected Forms

more endotic (comparative) most endotic (superlative)

Questions

What does endotic mean?
Not exotic; familiar, ordinary.
Where does endotic come from?
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 ?).

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