esoteric
adjective
uk
/ˌiː.səˈter.ɪk/ us
/ˌes.əˈter.ɪk/very unusual and understood or liked by only a small number of people, especially those with special knowledge:
Meaning of esoteric in English
(Definition of esoteric from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
esoteric | American Dictionary
esoteric
adjective
us
/ˌes·əˈter·ɪk/Literary readings can sometimes seem esoteric, but we are trying to make them more attractive to more people.
Examples of esoteric
esoteric
I had assumed that the book would focus on the relatively esoteric technique of using a videolink to interview patients.
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It also would have highlighted the interrelationships, rather than the fairly esoteric distinctions, between these areas of discourse studies.
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Over the last 200 years, as philosophy has increasingly become an esoteric inquiry pursued formally in the university, these battles have had less social significance.
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This difficult topic - the esoteric, the occult, the spiritual - is respectfully placed in its context.
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By 1980, he had considerably reduced his allusions to the most ' ' esoteric or supernatural issues.
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However, the topics dealt with are often esoteric methodological ones which will make the book heavy going for all except a few specialist demographers.
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The risks of being pushed, as a scholar, into 'the esoteric corner' are high.
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You cannot expect them to be interested in what seems to them to be your esoteric concerns.
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Contemporary practitioners have a large number of esoteric or hitherto lost texts to hand.
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One can, furthermore, speculate as to why certain features gain popularity and why others remain esoteric.
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General views about mind and brain were not then, as they are not now, esoteric matters.
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Each has made its perhaps esoteric subject interesting and accessible to a broad readership.
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The agenda mentioned earlier combined with the rather prescriptive nature of the text sadly leave little room for more esoteric considerations.
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The move away from the coterie, the reliance on esoteric language and system, is also an escape from a sanctioned common sense.
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The distinction between being able to do something and being able to bring oneself to do it is not contrived or esoteric.
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