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confined to and understandable by only a few — often an enlightened inner circle

She published a compilation of her esoteric philosophical theories, but few copies sold and even fewer were understood.

esoteric = confined to and understandable by only a few — often an enlightened inner circle

esoteric cultural references
esoteric tax ramifications
esoteric regulatory structure
To be intoxicated by a single glass of wine; I have experienced this pleasure when I have drunk the liquor of the esoteric doctrines.
Thoreau, Henry David -- Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience
Patriotism was a bit esoteric for me, too large-scale to see.
Robert A. Heinlein -- Starship Troopers

esoteric = difficult to understand

But then you have so many esoteric phrases.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum

esoteric = private (understandable by only an enlightened inner circle)

esoteric = confined to and understandable by only a few

as the spirits of the ancestors, just emerged from the earth, greeted themselves in their esoteric language.
Chinua Achebe -- Things Fall Apart

esoteric = understandable by only an enlightened inner circle

esoteric = not known to many people

...some belonged to different orders, including the Vanguard, the Minstrels, the Promethean Scholars, the Bloodstone Circle, and many other esoteric groups from Rowan's early days.
Henry H. Neff -- The Maelstrom

esoteric = understood by few

...the ordeal of a professional social life, and he could never understand that esoteric phenomenon, the dinner-party—the painful entertainment of people whom one neither likes nor finds interesting.
Sinclair Lewis -- Arrowsmith

esoteric = understandable by only an enlightened inner circle

It was a very strange document filled with references to esoteric events that had occurred over the year.
Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide
There's nothing mysterious or esoteric about it.
Robert M. Pirsig -- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Pastor Falk was saying that this person was enthralled by esoteric sources, specifically the Apocrypha.
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
When we become expert in something, our tastes grow more esoteric and complex.
Malcolm Gladwell -- Blink
For his esoteric amusement he commanded the jolies filles (and we obliged) to line up in front of him in order of height.
Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible
It is becoming very esoteric.
Don DeLillo -- Underworld
The man and woman stepped into the room stify side by side as though right out of a familiar, though esoteric, anniversary daguerreotype on a wall.
Joseph Heller -- Catch-22
To be intoxicated by a single glass of wine; I have experienced this pleasure when I have drunk the liquor of the esoteric doctrines.
Henry David Thoreau -- Walden

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