"esoterica" meaning in English

See esoterica in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /iːsəˈtɛɹɪkə/ [UK], /ɛsɵˈtɛɹəkə/ [US]
Rhymes: -ɛɹɪkə Head templates: {{en-noun|p}} esoterica pl (plural only)
  1. Things that are esoteric; things that are impractical or specialised. Tags: plural, plural-only Related terms: esoteric, exoteric, exoterica
    Sense id: en-esoterica-en-noun-OAAVPKfT Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English pluralia tantum

Download JSON data for esoterica meaning in English (1.2kB)

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "p"
      },
      "expansion": "esoterica pl (plural only)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English pluralia tantum",
          "parents": [
            "Pluralia tantum",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2002 May 20, “Luke Helder's Bad Trip”, in Time",
          "text": "Helder was also a visionary given to muddled, passionate harangues on immortality, astral projection and other esoterica.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Things that are esoteric; things that are impractical or specialised."
      ],
      "id": "en-esoterica-en-noun-OAAVPKfT",
      "links": [
        [
          "esoteric",
          "esoteric"
        ],
        [
          "impractical",
          "impractical"
        ],
        [
          "specialised",
          "specialised"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "esoteric"
        },
        {
          "word": "exoteric"
        },
        {
          "word": "exoterica"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "plural-only"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/iːsəˈtɛɹɪkə/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɛsɵˈtɛɹəkə/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛɹɪkə"
    }
  ],
  "word": "esoterica"
}
{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "p"
      },
      "expansion": "esoterica pl (plural only)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "esoteric"
    },
    {
      "word": "exoteric"
    },
    {
      "word": "exoterica"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English 5-syllable words",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English pluralia tantum",
        "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Rhymes:English/ɛɹɪkə",
        "Rhymes:English/ɛɹɪkə/5 syllables"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2002 May 20, “Luke Helder's Bad Trip”, in Time",
          "text": "Helder was also a visionary given to muddled, passionate harangues on immortality, astral projection and other esoterica.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Things that are esoteric; things that are impractical or specialised."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "esoteric",
          "esoteric"
        ],
        [
          "impractical",
          "impractical"
        ],
        [
          "specialised",
          "specialised"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "plural-only"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/iːsəˈtɛɹɪkə/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɛsɵˈtɛɹəkə/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛɹɪkə"
    }
  ],
  "word": "esoterica"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (a644e18 and edd475d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.