Sunday, 2 January 2011

exoteric

1:suitable to be imparted to the public. 2: belonging to the outer or less initiate circle. 3:external

Trying to reach a broader audience, the geneticist faced the challenge of producing an exoteric synthesis of complex information.

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This useful word derives from the Latin exotericus, itself from the Greek exoterikos ("external") and ultimately from exo, meaning "outside." Exo has a number of offspring in English, including "exotic," "exonerate," "exorbitant," and the combing form "exo-" or "ex-" (as in "exoskeleton"). The antonym of "exoteric" is "esoteric," meaning "designed for or understood by the specially initiated alone"; it descends from eso, the Greek word for "within."

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I think this word relates to blogging so much. While journals are esoteric, a blog is most definitely exoteric; however, sometimes what we share is esoteric in its ability to be fully understood...but art isn't supposed to be fully understood...

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