-centric

See also: centric and cèntric

English

Etymology

Representing a combining form of Ancient Greek κεντρικός (kentrikós, “central”).

Suffix

-centric

1. having a specified number of centres
2. 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^[1]:

     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.

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
• Westcentric

 

Translations

having a specified number of centres

• German: -zentrisch
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hungarian: -centrikus, -középpontú

having a specified object at the centre

• Danish: -centrisk
• Hungarian: -centrikus, -központú
• Italian: -centrico
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Portuguese: -cêntrico
• Spanish: -céntrico
• Swedish: -centrisk