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adj. - Suitable for the general public.

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  • Writings of an exoteric nature
  • These outdoor talks were called exoteric, and there gradually grew up esoteric lessons, which were for the rich or luxurious and the dainty.
  • A: There are both esoteric, and exoteric, tactics.
  • This view is the exoteric, and not the esoteric, one.
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  • The "esoteric" (understood by only a chosen few) poetry of today may be "exoteric" (simple; commonplace) in twenty years.
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