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anthropocentricism

anthropocentricism is the alternative form of anthropocentrism.

Meaning of anthropocentrism

Noun

anthropocentrism (countable and uncountable, plural anthropocentrisms)

  1. A viewpoint or theory that places human beings at the center of everything, giving preference to human beings above all other considerations.
    • Is challenging anthropocentrism irrelevant and unhelpful? The arguments against human—centredness I have advanced in the previous chapter include a strongly prudential one for the human species — that anthropocentrism leads to […]2005, Val Plumwood, Environmental Culture: The Ecological Crisis of Reason, Routledge, →ISBN, page 123
    Synonyms:
    homocentricism, humanocentrism

Forms of anthropocentricism

pluralanthropocentricisms

Questions about anthropocentricism

What is anthropocentricism the alternative form of?
Anthropocentricism is the alternative form of anthropocentrism.

Words near anthropocentricism in the dictionary

  1. anthropobiomes
  2. Anthropocene
  3. anthropocenic
  4. anthropocentric
  5. anthropocentrically
  6. anthropocentricism
  7. anthropocentricisms
  8. anthropocentricity
  9. anthropocentrism
  10. anthropocentrisms
  11. anthropocentrist

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