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1
difficult for one of ordinary knowledge or intelligence to understand
- metaphysics is such an esoteric subject that most people are content to leave it to the philosophers
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- academic
- (also academical),
- pedantic
- darkling,
- enigmatic
- (also enigmatical),
- inscrutable,
- mysterious,
- mystic,
- mystical,
- orphic,
- uncanny
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2
not known or meant to be known by the general populace
- must have had some esoteric motive for leaving his art collection to a museum halfway around the globe
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The first known use of esoteric was circa 1660
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