Etymology

endotic

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Today it means: Not exotic; familiar, ordinary. Full definition →

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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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