anthropocentric, a.
(ænˌθrəʊpəʊˈsɛntrɪk)
[f. anthropo- + Gr. κέντρ-ον centre + -ic.]
Centring in man; regarding man as the central fact of the universe, to which all surrounding facts have reference.
| 1863 Draper Intell. Devel. Eur. iii. (1865) 42 In the most ancient records remaining, the Hindu mind is dealing with anthropocentric conceptions..of the moral kind. 1876 tr. Haeckel's Creat. I. ii. 38 The anthropocentric error, that Man is the premeditated aim of the creation of the earth. |
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Add: Hence anthropocenˈtricity n., the quality or state of being anthropocentric.
| 1958 ‘E. Crispin’ Best SF 3 13 To say that A is sated with anthropocentricity in fiction, and B not, is only the beginning of an answer. 1960 Times Lit. Suppl. 3 June 356/1 Mr. Ordish, with his steady biologist's eye, will have none of this anthropocentricity. 1991 Times 14 Sept. (Weekend Times) 5/3 Mr Levin prides himself on anthropocentricity. Why would it matter if there were no bitterns? Because it would matter to people. |