What's the difference between exoticism and exoticness?
Exoticism
Definition:
(n.) The state of being exotic; also, anything foreign, as a word or idiom; an exotic.
Example Sentences:
(1) Writers who claimed to love and understand the places and peoples they wrote about must have seen them through a prism of eurocentricity, he argued, whereby they fetishised their exoticism and strangeness, and unconsciously patronised them.
(2) In Paris, where he lived from 1961 until 1963, he became acquainted with the proponents of négritude, the belief in a common black identity, though rejected its exoticism, feeling that South Africa's urban maelstrom left it looking redundant.
(3) But this isn't a career that needs any added exoticism.
(4) In other roles O'Toole would be very much the ladies' man, but this element of exoticism and danger never entirely left him.
(5) The way Iranian women dress has been a brand used both by the Islamic republic, which wishes to portray the country as uniformly pious, and western onlookers who find the exoticism of the hijab irresistible.
(6) Tabuleiro do Acarajé, Consolação Vatapá , acarajé , caruru : this exotic mouthful of sounds, ripe for rolling around the tongue, is matched only by the exoticism of the ingredients themselves, which come together to make one of the most emblematic dishes in north-eastern Brazil's superb cuisine.
(7) And dear Sir David Attenborough ; if you want to satisfy British interest in my nation's exoticism and a history of "zoological discovery", tell your fans to hit the Google button.
(8) Teesside’s lack of similar exoticism must have come as quite a culture shock yet Ramírez, much as he misses idyllic days spent fishing from the banks of the Uruguay river, explains he would be happy to see his nine-month-old daughter grow up in his new habitat.
(9) In his review of the original exhibition, the Guardian's Adrian Searle wrote: "I think it odd that anyone could be offended by Chris Ofili's rich and complex paintings, with their gorgeous, playful parodies of exoticism and ethnicity, their obsessive details, their wayward glamour."