exoteric

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esoteric | American Dictionary

esoteric
adjective
us/ˌes·əˈter·ɪk/
intended for or understood by only a few people who have special knowledge:
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.
It also would have highlighted the interrelationships, rather than the fairly esoteric distinctions, between these areas of discourse studies.
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.
This difficult topic - the esoteric, the occult, the spiritual - is respectfully placed in its context.
By 1980, he had considerably reduced his allusions to the most ' ' esoteric or supernatural issues.
However, the topics dealt with are often esoteric methodological ones which will make the book heavy going for all except a few specialist demographers.
The risks of being pushed, as a scholar, into 'the esoteric corner' are high.
You cannot expect them to be interested in what seems to them to be your esoteric concerns.
Contemporary practitioners have a large number of esoteric or hitherto lost texts to hand.
One can, furthermore, speculate as to why certain features gain popularity and why others remain esoteric.
General views about mind and brain were not then, as they are not now, esoteric matters.
Each has made its perhaps esoteric subject interesting and accessible to a broad readership.
The agenda mentioned earlier combined with the rather prescriptive nature of the text sadly leave little room for more esoteric considerations.
The move away from the coterie, the reliance on esoteric language and system, is also an escape from a sanctioned common sense.
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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