different between institutional vs exoterism

English

Etymology

institution +? -al.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??nst??tju??n?l/, /??nst??t?u???n?l/, /-?n?l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??nst??tju??n?l/, /??nst??tu??n?l/, /-?n?l/

Adjective

institutional (comparative more institutional, superlative most institutional)

1. Of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or organized along the lines of an institution.
2. Instituted by authority.
3. Elementary; rudimentary.
4. Arising from the practice of an institution.
   • 1999, William MacPherson, The Stephen Lawrence Inquiry, Cm 4262-I, para 6.48

     There must be an unequivocal acceptance of the problem of institutional racism and its nature before it can be addressed

Derived terms

• institutionally

Translations

English

Noun

exoterism (plural exoterisms)

1. The outward forms that religion takes; the institutional aspects of faith and religion, such as rituals, moral precepts, and institutions.
   • 1875. Gordon Campbell, Wilson Edward William Morrison, E B Iwan-Müller, Frederick Sanders Pulling, Francis Griffin Stokes, The Shotover Papers, Or, Echoes from Oxford, University of Oxford, page 73,

     It is not however easy -- perhaps it is impossible -- to reveal a discovery so wonderful by popular exoterism on the point: posterity will amplify and expound in dry but acumonious logic what I have here only to put forth in its great Severity and Profundity.

   • 1919. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled: A Master Key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science, The Aryan Theosophical Press, page 535,

     The thought of the present-day commentator and critic as to the ancient learning, is limited to and runs round the exoterism of the temples...

   • 2003. Reiner Schürmann, Reginald Lilly, Broken Hegemonies, Indiana University Press, page 248,

     In their exoterism, they showed civic sense is most demanding.

See also

• esoterism

References

• exoterism, in New Encyclopedia of Islam.

Anagrams

• oximeters, oximetres