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# Word of the day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/word-of-the-day-113/
- Published: 2019-11-22T17:15:02.000Z
- Updated: 2019-11-11T00:37:59.000Z
- Author: Peter Andersen
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:49

The word for today is…

exoteric (adj) – 1\. Not confined to an inner circle of disciples or initiates.  
2\. Comprehensible to or suited to the public; popular.  
3\. Of or relating to the outside; external.

Source : [The Free Dictionary](https://www.thefreedictionary.com/exoteric?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : Exoteric derives from Latin exotericus, which is itself from Greek ex?terikos, meaning “external,” and ultimately from ex?, meaning “outside.” Ex? has a number of offspring in English, including exotic, exonerate, exorbitant, and the combining form exo- or ex- (as in exoskeleton and exobiology). The antonym of exoteric is esoteric, meaning “designed for or understood by the specially initiated alone”; it descends from the Greek word for “within,” es?.