- (a.) Designed for, and understood by, the specially initiated alone; not communicated or not intelligible, to the general body of followers; private; interior; acroamatic; -- said of the private and more recondite instructions and doctrines of philosophers. Opposed to exoteric.
- (n.) An esoteric doctrine or treatise; esoteric philosophy; esoterics.
- (a.) Marked by secrecy or privacy; private; select; confidential; as, an esoteric purpose; an esoteric meeting.
- (n.) One who believes or is an initiate, in esoteric doctrines or rites.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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