Adjective: endotic
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more endotic |
| Superlative | most endotic |
Sample Sentences
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On the one hand, then, we have the exotic, the logical opposite of which we may therefore describe as endotic. ¶ How many and what civilizations are there? Where do the endotic and the exotic begin and end? [1959, Fosco Maraini, translated by Eric Mosbacher, Meeting With Japan., New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, published 1960, page 432:]
Adjectives inflected like endotic
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
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 ?).