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Anthropocentric

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Regarding humans as the central element of the universe.

adj. Interpreting reality exclusively in terms of human values and experience.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Placing humans at the center of something, giving preference to humans above all other considerations.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Assuming man as the center or ultimate end; -- applied to theories of the universe or of any part of it, as the solar system.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Regarding man as the central fact of creation; assuming man to be the final aim and end of creation.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. human-centered

Word Usage

"For decades, the consensus was that as children begin reasoning about the biological world, they adopt only one -- markedly "anthropocentric" -- vantage point, favoring humans over non-human animals when it comes to learning about properties of animals."

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

Afrocentric concentric eccentric egocentric ethnocentric

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Words that are found in similar contexts

violently straw-man geocentric ever-recurrent lifetyle