Exoteric

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Not confined to an inner circle of disciples or initiates.
  • adj. Comprehensible to or suited to the public; popular.
  • adj. Of or relating to the outside; external.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Suitable to be imparted to the public without secrecy or other reserves
  • adj. Accessible; capable of being readily or fully comprehended; or, having an obvious application
  • adj. Public or popular; having wide currency
  • adj. External
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. External; public; suitable to be imparted to the public; hence, capable of being readily or fully comprehended; -- opposed to esoteric, or secret.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • External; open; suitable for or communicated to the general public; popular: originally applied to the public teachings of Aristotle and other ancient philosophers, and sometimes used in a more special sense as opposed to fancied or real esoteric doctrines, See esoteric.
  • Pertaining to the outside; holding an external relation; publicly instructed.
  • In embryology, ectoblastic. See extract under esoteric.
  • n. One admitted only to exoteric instruction; one of the uninitiated.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. suitable for the general public
  • Equivalent
    exoterical   
    Antonym
    cerebral    exclusive    esoteric   
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    uninitiated    outer    public    commonplace   
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