exoteric

Through his prodding, I began to reconnect with the exoteric, crowd-pleasing Hollywood films I loved growing up.

The chief Gnostic sects held as secret their essential doctrines, and at the same time they had an exoteric statement which they gave to the common people.

Communicated orally; oral; Ð applied to the esoteric teachings of Aristotle, those intended for his genuine disciples, in distinction from his exoteric doctrines, which were adapted to outsiders or the public generally.

The close of philosophy is not the place, even in a general exoteric discussion, to waste a word on what a “notion” means.

The only one which I could then comprehend was exoteric; that which was known to my elders was the esoteric meaning.