-centric
English
Etymology
Representing a combining form of Ancient Greek κεντρικός (kentrikós, “central”).
Suffix
-centric
- having a specified number of centres
- having a specified object at the centre, or as the focus of attention
- 2012 June 26, Genevieve Koski, “Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe”, in The Onion AV Club:
- When the staccato, Neptunes-ian single “Boyfriend” was released in March, musical prognosticators were quick to peg the album it portended, Believe, as Justin Bieber’s Justified, a grown-and-sexy, R&B-centric departure that evolved millennial teenybopper Justin Timberlake into one of the unifying pop-music figures of the aughts.
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Hyponyms
- acrocentric
- Afrocentric
- Americanocentric
- androcentric
- Anglocentric
- anthropocentric
- areocentric
- austrocentric
- bicentric
- centric
- CLI-centric
- concentric
- eccentric
- egocentric
- endocentric
- Eurocentric
- Europocentric
- exocentric
- geocentric
- heliocentric
- homocentric
- metacentric
- phallocentric
- Polonocentric
- polycentric
- telocentric
- theocentric
Translations
having a specified number of centres
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