Thesaurus: esoteric

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1. 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.
2. adj. confined to and understandable by only an enlightened inner circle
3. 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. Enough if every age produce two or three critics of this esoteric class, with here and there a reader to understand them. De Quincey.
4. Designed for, and understood by, the specially initiated alone;not communicated, or not intelligible, to the general body offollowers; private; interior; acroamatic; -- said of the private andmore recondite instructions and doctrines of philosophers. Opposed toexoteric.Enough if every age produce two or three critics of this esotericclass, with here and there a reader to understand them. De Quincey.
5. j:100 a. confined to and understandable by only an enlightened inner circle