The difference between Ethnic and Exotic

When used as nouns, ethnic means an ethnic person, especially a foreigner or member of an immigrant community, whereas exotic means an organism that is exotic to an environment.

When used as adjectives, ethnic means of or relating to a group of people having common racial, national, religious or cultural origins, whereas exotic means foreign, especially in an exciting way.


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  1. Ethnic as an adjective:

    Of or relating to a group of people having common racial, national, religious or cultural origins.

    Examples:

    "There are many ethnic Indonesians in the Netherlands"

  2. Ethnic as an adjective:

    Belonging to a foreign culture.

    Examples:

    "I like to eat ethnic food"

  3. Ethnic as an adjective:

    Representative of a folk or traditional mode of expression.

  4. Ethnic as an adjective (historical):

    Heathen, not Judeo-Christian-Muslim.

  1. Ethnic as a noun:

    An ethnic person, especially a foreigner or member of an immigrant community.

  2. Ethnic as a noun:

    An ethnic minority.

  3. Ethnic as a noun (archaic):

    A heathen, a pagan.

  4. Ethnic as a noun:

    (in classical scholarship) the demonym of an Ancient Greek city

  1. Exotic as an adjective:

    Foreign, especially in an exciting way.

    Examples:

    "an exotic appearance"

  2. Exotic as an adjective:

    Non-native to the ecosystem.

  3. Exotic as an adjective (finance):

    Being or relating to an option with features that make it more complex than commonly traded options.

  1. Exotic as a noun (biology):

    An organism that is exotic to an environment.

  2. Exotic as a noun:

    An exotic dancer; a stripteaser.

  3. Exotic as a noun (physics):

    Any exotic particle.

    Examples:

    "Glueballs, theoretical particles composed only of gluons, are exotics."

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