Esoteric
[,esə'terɪk;,iːsə-] or [,ɛsə'tɛrɪk]
Definition
(adj.) confined to and understandable by only an enlightened inner circle; 'a compilation of esoteric philosophical theories' .
Checker: Micawber--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Designed for, and understood by, the specially initiated alone; not communicated, or not intelligible, to the general body of followers; private; interior; acroamatic; -- said of the private and more recondite instructions and doctrines of philosophers. Opposed to exoteric.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Private, secret, acroamatic, acroatic, not public, not exoteric.
Checker: Mitchell
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Private, special, exacter, advanced
ANT:Public, popular, rudimentary, exoteric
Checker: Marge
Definition
adj. inner: secret: mysterious: (phil.) taught to a select few—opp. to Exoteric.—adv. Esoter′ically.—ns. Esoter′icism Esot′erism the holding of esoteric opinions.—Esoteric Buddhism (see Theosophy).
Checker: Seymour
Unserious Contents or Definition
adj. Very particularly abstruse and consummately occult. The ancient philosophies were of two kinds —exoteric those that the philosophers themselves could partly understand and esoteric those that nobody could understand. It is the latter that have most profoundly affected modern thought and found greatest acceptance in our time.
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