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Meaning of "androcentric" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ANDROCENTRIC

androcentric  [ˌændrəʊˈsɛntrɪk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ANDROCENTRIC

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Androcentric is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES ANDROCENTRIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Androcentrism

Androcentrism is the practice, conscious or otherwise, of placing male human beings or the masculine point of view at the center of one's view of the world and its culture and history. The related adjective is androcentric, while the practice of placing the feminine point of view at the center is gynocentrism.

Definition of androcentric in the English dictionary

The definition of androcentric in the dictionary is having or regarding man or the male sex as central or primary.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ANDROCENTRIC


acentric
eɪˈsɛntrɪk
acrocentric
ˌækrəʊˈsɛntrɪk
anthropocentric
ˌænθrəpəʊˈsɛntrɪk
barycentric
ˌbærɪˈsɛntrɪk
centric
ˈsɛntrɪk
concentric
kənˈsɛntrɪk
dicentric
daɪˈsɛntrɪk
eccentric
ɪkˈsɛntrɪk
ecocentric
ˌiːkəʊˈsɛntrɪk
egocentric
ˌiːɡəʊˈsɛntrɪk
ethnocentric
ˌɛθnəʊˈsɛntrɪk
Eurocentric
ˌjʊərəʊˈsɛntrɪk
exocentric
ˌɛksəʊˈsɛntrɪk
geocentric
ˌdʒiːəʊˈsɛntrɪk
heliocentric
ˌhiːlɪəʊˈsɛntrɪk
metacentric
ˌmɛtəˈsɛntrɪk
pericentric
ˌpɛrɪˈsɛntrɪk
polycentric
ˌpɒlɪˈsɛntrɪk
theocentric
ˌθɪəˈsɛntrɪk
topocentric
ˌtɒpəˈsɛntrɪk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ANDROCENTRIC

androcentrism
androcephalous
Androcles
androclinia
androclinium
Androclus
androdioecious
androdioecism
androecia
androecial
androecium
androgen
androgenesis
androgenetic
androgenic
androgenous
androgyne
androgynophore
androgynous

WORDS THAT END LIKE ANDROCENTRIC

areocentric
asymmetric
bicentric
electric
endocentric
gastric
geometric
homocentric
hydroelectric
mantric
metric
multicentric
pediatric
psychiatric
selenocentric
submetacentric
symmetric
Tantric
telocentric
uneccentric

Synonyms and antonyms of androcentric in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «androcentric» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ANDROCENTRIC

Find out the translation of androcentric to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of androcentric from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «androcentric» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

以男性为主
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

androcéntrico
570 millions of speakers

English

androcentric
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

androcentric
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

androcentric
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

androcentric
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

androcêntrico
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

androcentric
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

androcentrique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Androcentric
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

androzentrisch
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

男性中心
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

남성 중심
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Androcentric
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

androcentric
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

androcentric
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

आणि केंद्रस्थानी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

androcentric
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

androcentric
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

androcentrycznej
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

androcentric
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

androcentric
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ανδροκεντρική
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

androsentriese
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

androcentrisk
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

androcentric
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of androcentric

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ANDROCENTRIC»

The term «androcentric» is normally little used and occupies the 136.204 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ANDROCENTRIC» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «androcentric» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «androcentric» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about androcentric

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ANDROCENTRIC»

Discover the use of androcentric in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to androcentric and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Our Androcentric Culture, Or the Man Made World
Social sciences; a look at the family, marriage, sex and gender and the roles of men and women within those.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 2009
2
The Man-Made World: Our Androcentric Culture
This long-form essay details the misogyny that was pervasive in Western culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 2011
3
The Man-Made World; or, Our Androcentric Culture ...
Giventhe old androcentric theory, and we have an androcentric culture—the kind we so far know; thisshort stretch we call "history;" withits proudandpitiful record. We have done wondersofupward growth—forgrowth isthe main law, and may not  ...
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 2011
4
Chasing the Androcentric Remainder in United States-Spanish ...
Subsequent chapters focus on writers Jose Marti (1853-1895), Clemente Soto Velez (1905-1993), Manuel Ramos Otero (1948-1990), and Abraham Rodriguez, Jr. (1961- ).
Arnaldo Jose Lopez Maldonado, 2006
5
Feminism and Science
nor degree-awarding institutions have been willing to award the title of Scientist to those who do not practice traditionally androcentric Western science, so it is to be expected that anyone who is practicing a different sort of science will not be ...
Nancy Tuana, 1989
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From Mouse to Mermaid: The Politics of Film, Gender, and Culture
"The. Whole. Wide. World. Was. Scrubbed. Clean". The. Androcentric. Animation. of. Denatured. Disney. Patrick D. Murphy A. May 25th, 1993, Chicago Tribune column by Anna Quindlen on the recent royal marriage in Japan was titled " '90s  ...
Elizabeth Bell, Lynda Haas, Laura Sells, 1995
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A History of Women Philosophers: Volume IV: Contemporary ...
Androcentric Ethics Gilman believed that humanity would only advance if women were liberated and if we achieved the transition from the primacy of the individual consciousness to the collective consciousness. Her economic analysis of free ...
M.E. Waithe, 1995
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The Gender and Science Reader
In addition to a general introduction by the editors to the volume, and introductions to each of the thematic sections, the Reader also includes a comprehensive bibliography of feminist science studies, making it an indispensable resource ...
Muriel Lederman, Ingrid Bartsch, 2001
9
Animals and Women: Feminist Theoretical Explorations
The otherness of women from an androcentric perspective finds a correlate in the more radical otherness of the animal from an anthropocentric perspective. On both scores— the magnitude of abuse and the extent of alienation— the analogue ...
Carol J. Adams, Josephine Donovan, 1995
10
Gender and Well-Being in Europe: Historical and Contemporary ...
Chapter. 10. Beyond. Equality: Towards. a. System. of. Non-. Androcentric. Indicators. Cristina. Carrasco. As previous chapters have already demonstrated, the value of the 'capabilities approach' for the study of human well-being is now widely ...
Professor Bernard Harris, Lina Gálvez, Professor Helena Machado, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ANDROCENTRIC»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term androcentric is used in the context of the following news items.
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Letter: Lend country a hand
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Remember typing that in typing class? A trite and androcentric admonition ... «Greenville Daily Reflector, Jul 15»
2
QUIZ: IDENTIFY THE MEANINGLESS NAMES GIVEN TO CFB …
That unfortunately makes this game entirely androcentric, for which we apologize. Go forth, and prove that you are smarter than others! «EDSBS, Jun 15»
3
LAUTENS: Regendered Jenner faces feminist critiques
... folksinger Beth Elliott: “I will not call a male 'she'; thirty-two years of suffering in this androcentric society … have earned me the title 'woman'; ... «North Shore News, Jun 15»
4
The rape, which is legal
In many homes, sexual happiness is androcentric and the wife is merely an accomplice. Picture for representational purpose ... «onmanorama, Jun 15»
5
Female Anglican clerics want to refer to God as 'She'
Keeping silent about the feminine aspect of God, helps keep our theology androcentric, keeps us thinking, at some level, that God is male, that ... «Deseret News, Jun 15»
6
What Exactly Does 'It's A Man's World' Mean?
Androcentric design also has deleterious effects on sex segregation in the workforce. Workplace technologies are frequently unconsciously ... «Huffington Post, May 15»
7
The next sexual politics issues: gender identity and the rights of …
We have lived in a patriarchal, androcentric, heteronormative society. Independence further intensified some of these tendencies rather than ... «Irish Times, May 15»
8
“Brothers, We Are Not All Brothers” – Jen Wilken
Now, I can understand the reasoning for androcentric forms of address. If you start acknowledging that women exist, then they might start filling ... «Patheos, May 15»
9
Rats Build Their Labyrinth: Oulipo in the 21st Century
... later published in The noulipian Analects, which notoriously criticized the Oulipo for being backward looking, androcentric, and apolitical. «Hyperallergic, May 15»
10
Liam Lacey: Cannes aims to represent the best in global cinema, but …
... is a state-supported, curated artistic festival that aims to represent the best in global cinema, but its record is embarrassingly androcentric. «The Globe and Mail, May 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Androcentric [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/androcentric>. May 2024 ».
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